Aggressor Quotes
49 quotes by 45 authors
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The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an…
— Ronald Reagan
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For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective…
— Richard M. Nixon
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Without doubt one is allowed to resist against the unjust aggressor to one's life, one's goods or one's physical integrity; sometimes, even 'til the aggressor's…
— Thomas Aquinas
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So great are the psychological restistances to war in modern nations, that every war must appear to be a war of defence against a menacing,…
— Harold Lasswell
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Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.
— Saddam Hussein
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With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and…
— Howard Zinn
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I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in…
— Dominic Monaghan
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History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.
— Mahmoud Darwish
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And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. "Sometimes in the private interest…
— Mark Twain
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While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He…
— Benjamin Tucker
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He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is…
— Benjamin Tucker
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Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor.
— John Hospers
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No one may threaten or commit violence ('aggress') against another man's person or property. Violence may be employed only against the man who commits such…
— Murray Rothbard
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When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.
— Timothy McVeigh
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Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.
— Helio Gracie
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Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial,…
— Enoch
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Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever…
— Jeff Cooper
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