Aggression Quote by Elihu Root

There are both things in international law: the principle of territorial integrity and right to self-determination.

— Vladimir Putin

“Precarity also characterizes that politically induced condition of maximized precariousness for populations exposed to arbitrary state violence who often have no other option than…

— Judith Butler

What we believe to be the motives of our conduct are usually but the pretexts for it.

— Miguel de Unamuno

The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.

— John Lewis Gaddis

History shows that when a state is intent upon making war against another state, even though not adjacent, it begins to seek frontiers across…

— Joseph Stalin

If one mistreats citizens of foreign countries, one infringes upon one's duty toward one's own subjects; for thus one exposes themto the law of…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

American foreign policy needs to be driven by what will get results and what is legal, not by what satisfies our primal instincts of…

— Chris Murphy

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

— Jeff Cooper

A sovereignty is always presumed to act upon principles of justice, and if, from mistake or oversight, it does injury to a nation or…

— Roger B. Taney

When activists need a pretext to justify their violence, they always find it.

— Charb

Every action needs to be prompted by a motive.

— Leonardo da Vinci

History shows that when any state intends to make war against another state, even not adjacent, it begins to seek for frontiers across which…

— J. Stalin