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You should be careful what you wish for, as the reasons for war get confused. One person can be very clear in their motives, but others can have different agendas.

— Dougray Scott

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

War is not a thing one wants.

— Hans Frank

We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace.

— Ulysses S. Grant

War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.

— Colin Powell

I still think it would be a great mistake to go into a war without support of our friends and allies.

— John Dingell

There is no better way to give comfort to an enemy than to divide the people of a nation over the issue of foreign war. There is no shorter road to defeat than by entering a war with inadequate preparation.

— Charles Lindbergh

Everyone is interested in war, in that people don't want it to happen. I'm much more interested in peace than in war but it's important to understand why we fight.

— Michael Morpurgo

Everybody wants peace. That's a truism. There is no point in accomplishing through war what you can accomplish through peace.

— Norman Finkelstein

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another... after the war is on.

— Robert M. La Follette

I feel like war should occur only for the most vital and necessary reasons, and only then.

— Sharon Stone

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