War may be made by one party, but it requires two to make peace.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have war when at least one of the parties to a conflict wants something more than it wants peace.
One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.
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.
A war can perhaps be won single-handedly. But peace - lasting peace - cannot be secured without the support of all.
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more or less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.
People always make war when they say they love peace.
The opposite of war is not peace, it's creation.
To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.
Making peace is harder than making war.
It is far easier to make war than peace.
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