Aggression Quote by Reinhold Niebuhr

“Looking back upon millennia of history, it appears clear that no race or culture has monopoly on wartime cruelty. The veneer of civilization seems…

— Iris Chang

War: A wretched debasement of all the pretenses of civilization.

— Anonymous

What threatens civilization today is not war, but the changing conception of life values entailed by certain political doctrines. Only by recapturing the dream…

— Lin Yutang

You can best serve civilization by being against what usually passes for it.

— Wendell Berry

War is a damnable, filthy thing and has destroyed civilization after civilization

— Philip Noel-Baker, Baron Noel-Baker

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defense can be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

What is more immoral than war?

— Marquis de Sade

The means of defence against foreign danger have been always the instruments of tyranny at home. Among the Romans it was a standing maxim…

— James Madison

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of…

— Elihu Root

Those wars are unjust which are undertaken without provocation. For only a war waged for revenge or defence can actually be just.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

War is not the only form of violence imposed on people through inadequate social arrangements. There is also hunger, poverty and scarcity. The use…

— Jacque Fresco

To deal with the true causes of war one must begin by recognizing as of prime relevancy to the solution of the problem the…

— Elihu Root