Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

If we are to have peace, we must learn loyalty to a larger group. And before we can learn loyalty, the thing to which we are to be loyal must be created.

The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.

Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.

Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.

To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.

The implication of game theory, which is also the implication of the third image, is, however, that the freedom of choice of any one state is limited by the actions of the others.

War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.

External pressure seems to produce internal unity.

Empiricism teaches that there is a real world of fixed things on the outside and that ideas of these outside things are stamped on the mind which is at the beginning of life a blank.

She told me that I need to forget about us, everything that came to lfie wasn't meant to be, all was a mistakeBut how?How can it be a mistake that I always took her to the Lord on my knees?

If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

Peanut butter is a poor man’s marmalade.

Brad will tell you. He puts a movie on, I'm asleep in 10 minutes. I have no patience. But the kids love action movies with comedy, Jackie Chan and all that.

I think for any small business that's bootstrapped, the overwhelming challenge initially is getting to positive cash flow.

Mania can be as terrifying as it gets. It is certainly as insane as one gets and so it's frightening when it gets out of control, but there are periods of mania when it can be extremely attractive.

... it is curious how fatal it is, either to a situation or to an individual, or even to a name, if in an evil moment it becomes funny.

As well the soldier dieth who standeth still as he that gives the bravest onset.

A man loved by a beautiful woman will always get out of trouble.