24 Quotes by Kenneth Waltz

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

To solve these problems one needs as much an understanding of politics as an understanding of man – and the one cannot be derived from the other.

The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.

The best critical consideration of the inherent weakness of a federation of states in which the law of the federation has to be enforced on the states who are its members is contained in the Federalist Papers.

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

Each state pursues its own interest’s, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.