Quotes About Aggression

I am sure that you will never end war with wars.

Sooner or later the world will have to return to the good old days when we fought wars and killed people the old-fashioned way, one at a time.

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown.

Defense is the first act of war.

Nothing is lost by peace; everything may be lost by war.

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent.

Usually when a lot of men get together, it's called a war.

War has been with us ever since the dawn of civilization. Nothing has been more constant in history than war.

Now, I believe that war is never inevitable until it starts, but there has been a great proclivity in human history, and including in recent history, for war.

We love action and adventure, but we use it to go out and start wars and kill people.

War is a ritual, a deadly ritual, not the result of aggressive self-assertion, but of self-transcending identification. Without loyalty to tribe, church, flag or ideal, there would be no wars.

War is just to those to whom war is necessary.

Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.

The urge to gain release from tension by action is a precipitating cause of war.

Men have periods; they're called wars.

In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

War is at best barbarism.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

A man's idee in a card game is war

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal.

Action and blood now get the game. Disdain treads on the peaceful name.

War appeals to young men because it is fundamentally auto-eroticism.