Quotes About Aggression

Wars are to be won with swords and spears, not with rice and salt.

Most wars are not fought over shortages of resources such as food and water, but rather over conquest, revenge, and ideology.

War is the business of barbarians.

War is terrorism, magnified a hundred times.

When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace.

One makes war to win, not because it's just.

Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.

When diplomacy ends, War begins.

War is a highly overrated tool of foreign policy.

War is the normal state of the people.

I want war. To me all means will be right. My motto is not "Don't, whatever you do, annoy the enemy." My motto is "Destroy him by all and any means." I am the one who will wage the war!

You lose nothing through peace. You can lose everything through war.

The bullet is a mad thing; only the bayonet knows what it is about.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Americans ... have wrought a country that has after more than two centuries yet to evidence a single year during which it was not making war upon someone, somewhere, for some reason.

Watch every tendency towards militarism, for we know that preparation for war leads to war.

It's east to start a war in any country

It's a nonsense assumption that you can get rid of terrorism with war. Terrorism is taking the lives of innocent people to gain your objective. War is basically the same thing on a larger scale.

War is addictive. Indeed, it is the most potent narcotic unleashed by mankind.

War technology is science in the service of obscene anatomical vandalism.

I would close every recruiting station, disband the Army, and disarm the Air Force. I would abolish the whole dreadful equipment of war, and say to the world; 'Do your worst!'

The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf.

What's so civil about war anyway?

One defends when his strength is inadequate, he attacks when it is abundant.