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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.

I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

War is no picnic. Wars should be prevented, and if you can't prevent them, you have to put them off.

Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.

I am opposed to war, to killing people, to any kind of hatred and violence.

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.

When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war.

My personal opinion is that if someone writes honestly about war, it will inherently be anti-war.

The utterly fallacious idea at the heart of the pro-war argument is that it is the duty of the anti-war argument to provide an alternative to war. The onus is on them to explain just cause.

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.