Aggression Quote by Charles Caleb Colton

The purpose of all wars, is peace.

— Saint Augustine

Wars are just to those to whom they are necessary.

— Edmund Burke

War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible,…

— Errol Morris

Every conflict plagues the peace that follows it.

— Stephen L. Carter

All wars are criminal.

— Marcel Marceau

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose…

— Alexander Cockburn

War is the matter which fills all history; and consequently the only, or almost the only, view in which we can see the external…

— Edmund Burke

I saw in the whole Christian world a license of fighting at which even barbarous nations might blush. Wars were begun on trifling pretexts…

— Hugo Grotius

This was not after all a conventional war, a struggle between equally predacious powers; it was a war to end all wars.

— Woodrow Wilson

War is the highest form of struggle for resolving contradictions, when they have developed to a certain stage, between classes, nations, states, or political…

— Mao Zedong

All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

— Nancy Gibbs

War nearly always serves as an occasion for serious expansions of state power and the destruction of legal protections

— Joseph Sobran