Quotes about Aggression

Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...

No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.

Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.

with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.

To ensure that erotic friendship never grew into the aggression of love, he would only meet each of his long-term mistresses only at long intervals. He considered this method flawless and propagated it among his friends: the important thing is to abide by the rules of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.

In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature.

Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas

The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.

In that second I was wounded. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge. A poor, uneducated servant in Africa was so secure he could ignore established White rudeness. No Black American I had ever known knew that security. Our tenure in the United States, though long and very hard-earned, was always so shaky, we had developed patience as a defense, but never as aggression.