Quotes About Aggression

If a war be undertaken...before the resources of peace have been tried and proved vain to secure it, that war has no defense, it is a national crime.

Then what explains war among states? Rousseau's answer is really that war occurs because there is nothing to prevent it.

Do you want total war? If necessary, do you want a war more total and radical than anything that we can even imagine today?

The Executive should be able to repel and not to commence war.

My home policy: I wage war; my foreign policy: I wage war. All the time I wage war.

The cause of war is preparation for war.

The aggressive spirit, the offensive, is the chief thing everywhere in war, and the air is no exception.

When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Prepare for war, since you have been unable to endure a peace.

Peace is absurd: Fascism does not believe in it.

Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind.

Attack is the secret of defense; defense is the planning of an attack.

If there is no sufficient reason for war, the war party will make war on one pretext, then invent another.

The defence of human liberty against the aggressions of despotic power have been always the most efficient in States where domestic slavery was to prevail.

Have you ever met a war you didn't love? I'm asking, is there any place you don't want to intervene in?

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys.

Three cheers for the war. Three cheers for Italy's war and three cheers for war in general. Peace is hence absurd or rather a pause in war.

People who talk of outlawing the atomic bomb are mistaken - what needs to be outlawed is war.

There isn't a war on terror, there is a war of terror.

Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.

War is nothing but organized murder.

War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

War can't end terrorism. War is terrorism.