Quotes About Aggression

When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

No, I don't mean love, when I say patriotism. I mean fear. The fear of the other. And its expressions are political, not poetical: hate, rivalry, aggression.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious

We have now to fight for peace with the same courage and deter-mination as we fought against aggression.

The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man.

We can bomb the world to pieces, but we can't bomb it into peace.

War should never be entered upon until every agency of peace has failed.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter, but with guns.

I like to grasp the initiative and not give my opponent peace of mind.

In times of peace, the war party insists on making preparation for war. As soon as prepared for, it insists on making war.

If I made peace with Russia today, I'd only attack her again tomorrow. I just couldn't help myself.

To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

If you try to fix violence with violence, you do NOTHING but create violence.

War is to man what motherhood is to a woman. From a philosophical and doctrinal viewpoint, I do not believe in perpetual peace.

The grim fact is that we prepare for war like precocious giants, and for peace like retarded pygmies.

Peace is the time it takes to reload your rifle.

As you can see, even when [Adolf] Hitler desires to speak for peace, he cannot dispense with threats. This is symptomatic.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war

There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

It would be the greatest mistake, certainly, to think that concessions mean peace. Nothing of the kind. Concessions are nothing but a new form of war.

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

It's quite fun to fight them, you know. It's a hell of a hoot. It's fun to shoot some people. I'll be right up front with you, I like brawling.

People always make war when they say they love peace.