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Quotes About Aggression

Let those who once fought against brothers and relatives now rightfully fight against barbarians.
~ Pope Urban II
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I'm the god of war, the resurrector of the horror-core. The carnivore, destroying you wasn't hard at all
~ Vinnie Paz
War is just a racket... I believe in adequate defense at the coastline and nothing else.
~ Smedley Butler
Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.
~ Jessica Savitch
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
~ Benjamin Spock
All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.
~ George Orwell
There are a lot of people who say that bombing cannot win the war. My reply to that is that it has never been tried. . . and we shall see.
~ Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet
Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Men rush to arms for slight causes, or no cause at all, and once taken up there is no longer any respect for law, divine or human.
~ Hugo Grotius
Kill Japs, kill Japs, kill more Japs!
~ William Halsey
There are no warlike people, just warlike leaders.
~ Ralph Bunche
We're at war with Japan. We were attacked by Japan. Do you want to kill Japanese, or would you rather have Americans killed?
~ Curtis LeMay
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
~ John Steinbeck
Football is something like war. Whoever behaves too properly, is lost.
~ Rinus Michels
The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is a more violent world.
~ Hannah Arendt
We shall kill. If you have not killed at least one German a day, you have wasted that day... Do not count days; do not count miles. Count only the number of Germans you have killed.
~ Ilya Ehrenburg
War means fighting, and fighting means killing.
~ Nathan Bedford Forrest
He that preaches war is the devil's chaplain.
~ John Ray
Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.
~ Reinhold Niebuhr
Killing is the payoff of war.
~ Morley Safer
War is the health of the state.
~ Randolph Bourne
...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.
~ Lemmy Kilmister