Quotes About Aggression

It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour.

All humor is based on hostility - that's why World War Two was funny.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

War is not about flag-waving and patriotism. War is about killing and death.

War is a survival among us from savage times and affects now chiefly the boyish and unthinking element of the nation.

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

We are mad, not only individually, but nationally. We check manslaughter and isolated murders; but what of war and the much-vaunted crime of slaughtering whole peoples?

I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.

War cannot be driven out by war, for the use of evil breeds more evil, hostility more hostility, and the use of force more force.

There is no calamity greater than lightly engaging in war.

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Passitivity and quietism are invitations to war.

The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.

That's one of the horrors of war, that you can train a person, train them to hate, train them to kill. It's a terrible thought.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

War...is harmful, not only to the conquered but to the conqueror.

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong, and strike at what is weak.

In violence, we forget who we are

Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

The first atrocity, the first war crime committed in any war of aggression by the aggressors is against the truth.

Nowadays wars are not declared. They simply start.

If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in.