Aggressor Quotes

49 Aggressor quotes by 45 unique authors

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
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
The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength-and strength alone. — Dwight D. Eisenhower
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
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
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
Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor. — Saddam Hussein
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
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
History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor. — Mahmoud Darwish
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
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
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
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
Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become … a far greater aggressor. — John Hospers
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
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
Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice. — Helio Gracie
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
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
There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor. — Angelina Jolie
Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend… — Elie Wiesel
It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to… — Douglas MacArthur
In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is… — Tom Hooper
For everybody has a natural right to defend his own person and property against aggressors, but also to go to the assistance and defence of… — Lysander Spooner

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