Quotes about Aggression

History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.

The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous.

Territorial disputes have at all times been found one of the most fertile sources of hostility among nations. Perhaps the greatest proportion of wars that have desolated the earth have sprung from this origin.

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.

There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war.

Violence is not the answer. Terrorism is the most dangerous of answers.

Men make war to get attention. All killing is an expression of self-hate.

Lets be honest: I'm an athlete, not an entertainer as much. So as an athlete, I am a guy who likes the physical confrontation of the football field. I like playing nose-guard; I like having two 350 pound guys trying to rip my head off.

I like hitting people. The best feeling is when you hit so hard, pow! You get a jarring headache.

The only defensible war is a war of defense.

The more you resist something, the more aggressive it becomes.

The inflated ego of the tyrant is a curse to himself and his world — no matter how his affairs may seem to prosper. Self-terrorized, fear-haunted, alert at every hand to meet and battle back the anticipated aggressions of his environment, which are primarily the reflections of the uncontrollable impulses to acquisition within himself, the giant of self-achieved independence is the world's messenger of disaster