I learned firsthand that there would simply be no wars if people engaged in real conversation.
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History is littered with wars which everybody knew would never happen.
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace.
Better talk than fight, if nothing of sovereign value is anyway lost. Dialogue has achieved more than confrontation in many parts of the world.
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Waging war we understand, but not waging peace, or at any rate less consciously so.
Having seen war, you obviously learned to hate war.
Jokes are better than war. Even the most aggressive jokes are better than the least aggressive wars. Even the longest jokes are better than the shortest wars.
If war occurs, that positive adult contact in every shape is needed more than ever. It will be a matter of emotional life and death. There's not a handy one-minute way of talking to your kid about war.
It is highly probable that in most cases, war could be avoided or ended. For discussions allow passion to subside, and to persuade alienated neighbors, or at least one of them, to listen to the voice of a conciliator is a step in the direction of peace.
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
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