“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.”

Source: Man, the State, and War (1959), Chapter VI, The Third Image, p. 159

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