I preferred the weapons of dialectic to all the other teachings of philosophy, and armed with these, I chose the conflicts of disputation rather than the trophies of war.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always preferred conflict of individuals over the battle of extreme ideologies.
Among pacifists it was above all the English who always insisted on the importance of disarmament. They said that the man in the street would not understand the kind of pacifism that neglected to demand immediate restriction of armaments.
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
If you use weapons of war to bring about peace, you're going to have more war and destruction.
We have a tendency to think of war as this quasi-mystical thing, and that interpretation flattens the experience - by using different perspectives, I wanted to open a place for readers to compare and contrast, to make judgments, to engage.
I would go to war with words, not weapons. I would die talking before I lifted a weapon.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
I only got 'War and Peace' on the third attempt.
We must teach our children to resolve their conflicts with words, not weapons.
I didn't promote war when I was a weapons inspector.
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