256 Quotes About Political-science

When two nations had a contradictory assessment of their own military power and the issue at state was vital to both nations, war was likely.

Wars end when nations agree that war is an unsatisfactory instrument for solving their dispute; wars begin when nations agree that peaceful diplomacy is an unsatisfactory instrument for solving their dispute. Agreement is the essence of the transition from peace to war and from war to peace, for those are merely alternating phases of a relationship between nations.

Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it’s over, it isn’t so bad.

Manchester’s disciples believed that paradise was an international bazaar. They favoured the international flow of goods and ideas and the creation of institutions that channeled that flow and the abolition of institutions that blocked it. Nations, they argued, now grow richer though commerce than though conquest.

In the palace of glass and iron, the locomotive and telegraphic equipment were admired not only as mechanical wonders; they were also messengers of peace and instruments of unity.

But we are only termites on a planet and maybe when we bore too deeply into the planet there'll be a reckoning. Who knows?

Peace is a state of mind, but in a world where the state controls the mind, peace remains an inconvenience.

The biggest enemies of the state are those politicians who look to win a war, instead of organizing the peace, and the citizens who allow them to do so.

Politics doesn't corrupt people, people corrupt politics.