Kenneth Waltz - Peace Quotes

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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.

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

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It is not true that were the Soviet Union to disappear the remaining states could easily live in peace.

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

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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.

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