Quotes about Aggression
Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.
— Ted Dekker
There are no 'strong women.' And men, don't say, 'Real men don't try to bully women.' If a woman attacks you, you fight back.
— Jesse Lee Peterson
Do nothing unto anyone that you would not like to have done unto yourself. Seek peace, and never be the aggressor—but if anyone attacks you, we do not teach you to turn the other cheek.
— Malcolm X
Wars happen because the ones who start them think they can win.
— Margaret Atwood
A dog that has rabies probably will do things it wouldn't do if it didn't have rabies. But that doesn't change the fact that it has rabies.
— John Malkovich
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done
— George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity.
— George Eliot
We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves.
— Albert Camus
We do not wonder that there is conflict in the world. There is now, and has been from the time that Cain slew Abel, so much of hatred.
— Gordon Hinckley
Further, nothing, except sin, is contrary to an act of virtue. But war is contrary to peace. Therefore war is always a sin.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The brazen throat of war.
— John Milton
Lay waste all the settlements around... that the country may not be merely overrun, but destroyed ... listen to any overture of peace before the total ruin of their settlements is effected.
— George Washington