The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Even when I was hurt, I was always the aggressor, no matter what.

— Jake LaMotta

In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

— Martin Amis

“The firm has two cats, one for the warehouse and one for the attic. Now it occasionally happen that the two cats met; and…

— Anne Frank

“The aggressor is always peace-loving (as Bonaparte always claimed to be); he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.”

— Carl von Clausewitz

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.”

— James Franck

At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."

— Sam Levenson

“In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor." James Franck, The Manhattan Project neatly summarize the atmic…

— James Franck

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole…

— Erich Maria Remarque

I place a lot of value on pace of the game, going after people... always be the aggressor and forcing the issue a little…

— Nick Nurse

Russia has never been an aggressor. Russia has always been a country contributing to global stability and security. A country heavily involved in combating…

— Dmitry Peskov

Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

— Clay Guida

“No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.”

— Anonymous

He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it…

— Benjamin Tucker