Aggression Quote by Nicholson Baker

“it was the horror of the two world wars—Verdun, the Somme, Hiroshima—that led to our own era’s questioning of the tragic view of war.…

— Victor Davis Hanson

“Germany’s siege mentality and gnawing sense of encirclement (the need to ‘storm out of the fortress’ to prevent a Russian attack); Austria-Hungary’s hatred of…

— Paul Ham

“With proper and prudent recognition of their limited war potential, the British hoped to avoid a frontal attack on the Continent. They preferred a…

— Ladislas Farago

The German air offensives against British cities in World Wars I and II not only failed to coerce the United Kingdom to surrender, but…

— John Mearsheimer

I'm not a pacifist at all; I think there is a notion of "just war" that can be persuasively argued. I think in the…

— Cornel West

How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc…

— Osbert Sitwell

The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf…

— Frederick Forsyth

“Ill-advisedly, the western Allies, following the defeat of Germany in World War I, sought to punish and degrade their adversary rather than rebuilding the…

— Charles River Editors

The battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe.

— Vasily Chuikov

The mad, cruel, and accursed American war.

— Lord George Gordon

“Waving his arm over the carnage, the German remarked that the American attack that morning had been a “foolish affair.” He himself had known…

— Joseph E. Persico

“Germany’s emergence as a self-confident, non-aggressive, democratic power – not to speak of the humanitarian example it has set – is a pill too…

— John le Carré