Quotes about Aggression
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
- George Bernard Shaw
A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.
- Chris Fabry
The thrill that came with each blow was wonderfully familiar. Unable to stop and unwilling to, Frank kept going even though the big man was unconscious. The women stopped clawing each other and pulled at Frank's collar.
- Toni Morrison
Violence is essentially wordless, and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down.
- Thomas Merton
Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.
- Martin Luther
You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
- Margaret Atwood
They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.
- Thomas Jefferson
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
- Victor Hugo
That there are men in all countries who get their living by war, and by keeping up the quarrels of Nations is as shocking as it is true...
- Thomas Paine
No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it. There can be no appeasement with ruthlessness. There can be no reasoning with an incendiary bomb.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky