Kenneth Waltz

"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."

"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."

"If we gather more and more data and establish more and more associations, however, we will not finally find that we know something. We will simply end up having more and more data and larger sets of c…"

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

"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 Federalis…"

"With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dictates of its own reason or desire - conflict, sometim…"

"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 reconc…"