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Kenneth Waltz
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Kenneth Waltz

“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

Source/Notes: Chapter I, Introduction, p. 1 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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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 result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.”

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter II, The First Image, p. 16 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

“Each man does seek his own interest, but, unfortunately, not according to the dictates of reason.”

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter II, The First Image, p. 23 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

“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

Source/Notes: Chapter II, The First Image, p. 38 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

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

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter III, Some Implications Of The First Image, p. 42 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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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 created.”

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter III, Some Implications Of The First Image, p. 69 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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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 accidental attack, seek the war that will bring internal peace.”

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter IV, The Second Image, p. 81 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

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

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter IV, The Second Image, p. 98 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

“To build a theory of international relations on accidents of geography and history is dangerous.”

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter IV, The Second Image, p. 107 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

“Is it capitalism or states that must be destroyed in order to get peace, or must both be abolished?”

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter V, Some Implications Of The Second Image, p. 127 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

“External pressure seems to produce internal unity.”

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter V, Some Implications Of The Second Image, p. 149 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

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

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter V, Some Implications Of The Second Image, p. 150 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

“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

Source/Notes: Chapter VI, The Third Image, p. 159 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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Kenneth Waltz

“In anarchy there is no automatic harmony.”

- Kenneth Waltz

Source/Notes: Chapter VI, The Third Image, p. 160 - Man, the State, and War (1954)
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