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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

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

— Jeremy Corbyn

I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

— George W. Bush

We cannot have peace if we are only concerned with peace. War is not an accident. It is the logical outcome of a certain way of life. If we want to attack war, we have to attack that way of life.

— A. J. Muste

War is an arena for the display of courage and virtue. Or war is politics by other means. War is a quasi-mystical experience where you get in touch with the real. There are millions of narratives we impose to try to make sense of war.

— Phil Klay

People always make war when they say they love peace.

— D. H. Lawrence

A sane person doesn't think war is a good idea. I'm not a pacifist. I feel that there are situations where fighting is inescapable, but we don't go looking for those things.

— Bruce Cockburn

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

— Robert Dallek

We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

✗Opposing Perspectives

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

— Norman Finkelstein