Top 40 Kenneth Waltz Quotes
#1. Asking who won a given war, someone has said, is like asking who won the San Francisco earthquake. That in war there is no victory but only varying degrees of defeat is a proposition that has gained increasing acceptance in the twentieth century.
Kenneth Waltz
#2. It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.
Kenneth Waltz
#3. Once socialism replaces capitalism, reason will determine the policies of states.
Kenneth Waltz
#4. 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.
Kenneth Waltz
#5. Every expression of desired friendship has potential bite. Every smile reveals the teeth.
Dean Koontz
#6. We cannot ask forgiveness over and over again for our sins, and then return to our sins, expecting God to forgive us. We must turn from our practice of sin as best we know how, and turn to Christ by faith as our Lord and Savior.
Billy Graham
#7. Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.
Kenneth Waltz
#8. Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?
Kenneth Waltz
#9. Needs can never be replaced; wants get replaced.
Umair Naeem
#10. Anyone who believes the competitive spirit in America is dead has never been in a supermarket when the cashier opens another check-out line.
Ann Landers
#11. Any part that makes you world famous has got to be a blessing, hasn't it?
Tim Curry
#12. 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.
Kenneth Waltz
#13. 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.
Kenneth Waltz
#15. The transitory interests of royal houses may be advanced in war; the real interests of all people are furthered by the peace.
Kenneth Waltz
#16. War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.
Kenneth Waltz
#17. War and the threat of war stimulate speculation upon the conditions of peace.
Kenneth N. Waltz
#18. Before his dreams had been fragile, insubstantial things, like strands of gossamer and they would fall apart and fade as soon as his eyes opened to the light of a new morning.
John Carter
#19. Like it or not, she was going to belong to him.
Julie Garwood
#21. War may achieve a redistribution of resources, but labor, not war, creates wealth.
Kenneth Waltz
#22. States in the world are like individuals in the state of nature. They are neither perfectly good nor are they controlled by law.
Kenneth Waltz
#23. Just to clear the record ive never turn down a mma fight against anyone and never will.
Jon Jones
#24. It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
Thomas Aquinas
#25. External pressure seems to produce internal unity.
Kenneth Waltz
#26. 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 correlations.
Kenneth Waltz
#27. The most important causes of political arrangements and acts are found in the nature and behavior of man.
Kenneth Waltz
#28. To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.
Eric Brown
#29. In a zero-sum game, the problem is entirely one of distribution, not at all one of production.
Kenneth Waltz
#30. Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.
Antoine De Saint-Exupery
#31. 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, sometimes leading to war, is bound to occur.
Kenneth Waltz
#32. As far as I'm concerned there shouldn't be a single boot on the ground. There's enough American blood in Iraq that lasts forever.
Harry Reid
#33. 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.
Kenneth Waltz
#35. I actually started an adult book, worked on it for about two years, and then decided it just wasn't coming together for me, and thought I'll go back to children's books, and almost immediately I started 'Holes,' and it just seemed to take off on me.
Louis Sachar
#36. To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.
Kenneth Waltz
#37. According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.
Kenneth Waltz
#38. Lots of women think that a loving relationship starts by falling in love with someone.That road, often unpaved and unmarked and at times filled with stones to easily trip on, is the road to self-love.
Barbara Becker Holstein
#39. Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.
Kenneth Waltz
#40. 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.
Kenneth Waltz
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