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The thing is that war is the opposite of negotiation. It's when you cannot negotiate, when you cannot talk, when you cannot reach agreements that then you have war.

— Ingrid Betancourt

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

If you're against war, you're against war regardless of what happens. It's a wrong method of trying to settle a dispute.

— Jeannette Rankin

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

War means fighting, and fighting means killing.

— Nathan Bedford Forrest

War is not, in itself, a condition so much as the symptom of a condition - that of international anarchy.

— Alfred Hermann Fried

War - An act of violence whose object is to constrain the enemy, to accomplish our will.

— George Washington

There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked.

— Charles de Secondat

War is the slaughter of human beings, temporarily regarded as enemies, on as large a scale as possible.

— Jeannette Rankin

War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

It is simply not true that war is solely a means to an end, nor do people necessarily fight in order to obtain this objective or that. In fact, the opposite is true: people very often take up one objective or another precisely in order that they may fight.

— Martin Van Creveld

✗Opposing Perspectives

You can only end a negotiation for peace if you begin it.

— Benjamin Netanyahu