Aggressive Quote by Dean Rusk

Appeasement does not work. As was the case in the 1930s, we see in Saddam Hussein an aggressive dictator threatening his neighbors.

— George H. W. Bush

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

— James Baker

"Appeasement" is the policy of feeding your friends to a crocodile, one at a time, in hopes that the crocodile will eat you last.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Dictators can be deterred, they can be crushed - but they can never be appeased.

— Margaret Thatcher

Violence does not resolve. It always leads to more violence.

— Mark Kurlansky

Vladimir Putin has this animalistic instinct of all dictators: He smells weakness. To quote Winston Churchill's definition of appeasement: "An appeaser is one who…

— Garry Kasparov

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn…

— Meles Zenawi

The idea of reasoning with terrorists without force or with appeasement is naive, and I think it's dangerous.

— George Allen

If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer.

— Ronald Reagan

There is a tendency in any conflict, especially in a democracy, to fight the enemy you can, not the enemy you should.

— Robert Baer

There's a clear example of resolve in this country to fight back.

— John Warner

The answer to violence is even more democracy. Even more humanity.

— Jens Stoltenberg