Quotes About Aggression

Grant's aggressive decision to press forward toward Vicksburg in November 1862, stood in stark contrast with the tentativeness of other major Union commanders. McClellan hesitated after his incomplete victory at Antietam on September 17, allowing Lee to cross back over the Potomac into the safety of Virginia. Buell, following his strategic victory at Perryville on October 8, did not pursue a bloodied Bragg.

People don't start wars, governments do.

white raiders attack their own kind just so it can be blamed on the Cheyenne." Ansley

Another weapon of war was alcohol, accelerating in the eighteenth century.

He'd taken out one of them with well-placed elbow strikes and got another guy in a leg lock that probably wrecked the son of a bitch's knee for life, but Alec had no finesse with that last moron. He just slammed that fucker's head on the concrete and grounded-and-pounded with all he had. Might have killed him. Wouldn't

The meaning of my star is war.

When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside, but the she-bear thus accosted rends the peasant tooth and nail, for the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

The Man Pack are angry. They throw stones and talk child's talk. My mouth is bleeding. Let me run away.

In some countries, I said to myself, the only life you can properly desire is that of destroyer.

As time passed, hundreds of Arabs streamed out from neighboring areas and the Old City with more guns, hand grenades, and Molotov cocktails. British soldiers watched from their post less than a hundred yards away and did nothing.

I believe that in the deepest places in their hearts, people are violent and take pleasure in hurting each other.

People have been making war for thousands of years, but each time it is as if it is the first war ever waged, as if everyone has started from scratch. A

but pulling the trigger on that high-riding bitch

Too many people spouting too many words, and in the end those words will turn to bullets and stones.

There is a thing that lives in us, eating our food, breathing our air, looking out through our eyes, and when it comes out to play nobody is immune; possessed, we turn murderously upon one another, thing-darkness in our eyes and real weapons in our hands, neighbour against thing-ridden neighbour, thing-driven cousin against cousin, brother-thing against brother-thing, thing-child against thing-child.

Murder is a crime of violence against the murdered person. Suicide is a crime of violence against those who remain alive.

Don't ask who planted the bomb; in those days there were many such planters, many gardeners of violence.

Is it normal to wake up in the morning in a sweat because you can't wait to beat another human's guts out?

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover - you can't do both.

I was hoping he would get up so I could hit him again and keep him down.

Politics has become a blood sport that goes beyond just the person whose name is on the ballot.

The guys who play it [soccer] are kinda dumb. Why don't they just kick the crap out of the guy in front of the net? Then they could score all they want.

We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression.

Get the hell out of my way!