Quotes about Aggression

Territorial disputes have at all times been found one of the most fertile sources of hostility among nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world — no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself, the giant of self-achieved independence is the world's messenger of disaster

In bounded communities, aggression is projected outward. For example, the ten commandments say, "Thou shalt not kill." Then the next chapter says, "Go into Canaan and kill everybody in it." That is a bounded field. The myths of participation and love pertain only to the in-group, and the out-group is totally other.

You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

This was not an act of terrorism, but it was an act of war.

Some men, at the approach of a dispute, neigh like horses.

As long as there will be a man, there will be wars.