With many sovereign states, with no system of law enforceable among them, with each state judging its grievances and ambitions according to the dicta…

- Kenneth Waltz

War most often promotes the internal unity of each state involved. The state plagued by internal strife may then, instead of waiting for the accident…

- Kenneth Waltz

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

- Kenneth Waltz

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 the…

- Kenneth Waltz

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 re…

- Kenneth Waltz

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 crea…

- Kenneth Waltz

In anarchy there is no automatic harmony .

- Kenneth Waltz

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

- Kenneth Waltz

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