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Quotes About Aggression

Peace through strength works; but the flip side is war invited by weakness.
~ Pete Hegseth
War justifies everything.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
What thrust us into war were not Hitler's political teachings: the cause, this time, was his successful attempt to establish a new economy. The causes of the war were: envy, greed, and fear.
~ J. F. C. Fuller
War is life war is the origin of all things.
~ Adolf Hitler
War is the science of destruction.
~ John S. C. Abbott
The Japanese had a very strong belief in Bushido, death before dishonour. They were fighting for their country; they were the aggressors in World War II.
~ Steven Spielberg
Der Krieg ist nichts als eine Fortsetzung des politischen Verkehrs mit Einmischung anderer Mittel. War is merely the continuation of policy with the admixture of other means.
~ Carl von Clausewitz
It is always easy to begin a war, but very difficult to stop one.
~ Sallust
War and preparations for war have acquired a kind of legitimacy.
~ Alva Myrdal
It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island.
~ Ronald Reagan
The bloodiest, most brutal wars fought, all based on religious hatred. Which is fine with me! Any time a bunch of holy people want to go out and kill each other I'm a happy guy!
~ George Carlin
Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.
~ Alice Walker
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
~ George Bernard Shaw
When they said "Make love, not war" at Woodstock, they never imagined that one would become as dangerous as the other.
~ Jay Leno
Pre-emptive war might fall within the framework of international law.
~ Noam Chomsky
the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.
~ Vida Dutton Scudder
War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting; but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known.
~ Thomas Hobbes
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war.
~ George Orwell, 1984
War is what happens when language fails.
~ Margaret Atwood
War is the trade of kings.
~ John Dryden
The basic principle that we must follow in directing the armies of the Republic is this: that they must feed themselves on war at the expense of the enemy territory.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
My sentence is for open war.
~ John Milton
I've never heard of soft war.There's no soft war. War is war. Any war is ruthless. When you fight terrorists, you fight them like any other war.
~ Bashar al-Assad