Aggressors Quotes

• It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Acting, Habit, Claims

  Jawaharlal Nehru (1968). “Glorious thoughts of Nehru: being a treasury of over twelve thousand invaluable and inspiring thoughts, views and observations of Jawaharlal Nehru, collected from his writings and speeches and classified under four hundred subjects”

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• For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Party, Silence, Way

  Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1909). “The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche: The First Complete and Authorized English Translation”

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• The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Revenge, Anger

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

  Dean Rusk

  Appeasement, Aggressive

  "Fictional character: Dean Rusk". "Thirteen Days", www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves ... politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves... The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country.

  David Ben-Gurion

  Country, Views, Want

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• To defeat the aggressors is not enough to make peace durable. The main thing is to discard the ideology that generates war.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Peace, War, Defeat

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• In a war the aggressor sets the rules.

  Rush Limbaugh

  War

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• Fight back! Whenever you are offered violence, fight back! The aggressor does not fear the law, so he must be taught to fear you. Whatever the risk, and at whatever the cost, fight back!

  Jeff Cooper

  Fighting, Law, Risk

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• The lesson of all history warns us that we should negotiate only when our military superiority is so convincing that we can achieve our objective at the conference table, and deny the aggressor theirs.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Peace, Military, War

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• In my experience of fights and fighting, it is invariably the aggressor who keeps getting everything wrong.

  Martin Amis

  Fighting

  Martin Amis (1987). “The Moronic Inferno and Other Visits to America”, Penguin Group USA

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• In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Hands, Issues

  Abraham Lincoln (2011). “Lincoln on the Civil War: Selected Speeches”, p.44, Penguin

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• In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it.

  Abraham Lincoln

  War, Government, Hands

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.261, Wildside Press LLC

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• In our own native land, in defense of the freedom that is our birthright and which we ever enjoyed till the late violation of it. For the protection of our property, acquired solely by the honest industry of our fore-fathers and ourselves, against violence actually offered, we have taken up arms. We shall lay them down when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, and all danger of their being renewed shall be removed, and not before.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Father, Taken, Land

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.87, Cambridge University Press

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• Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Men, Essence, Names

  Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890.

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• In the end, the aggressors always destroy themselves, making way for others who know how to cooperate and get along. Life is much less a competitive struggle for survival than a triumph of cooperation and creativity.

  Fritjof Capra

  Struggle, Creativity, Survival

  Fritjof Capra (1996). “The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems”, Doubleday

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• The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength - and strength alone.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Strength, Hands

  Speech at an English Speaking Union Dinner, July 03, 1951.

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• I had learned that you should always shout louder than your aggressor.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Should

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• Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.

  Moshe Dayan

  Israel, World

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• There is no shame in being a survivor of sexual violence. The shame is on the aggressor.

  Angelina Jolie

  Survivor, Violence, Shame

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• Our arms must be mighty ... ready for instant action, so that no potential aggressor may be tempted to risk his own destruction

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Risk, May, Arms

  Farewell Address, delivered 17 January 1961

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• History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

  Mahmoud Darwish

  Laughing, Victim

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• The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor.

  Ronald Reagan

  Peace, War, Fighting

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan)., Ronald Reagan, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1982). “Ronald Reagan”

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• I think for the most part men have always been the aggressors sexually. Through time immemorial they've always been in control. So I think sex is equated with power in a way, and that's scary in a way. It's scary for men that women would have that power, and I think it's scary for women to have that power - or to have that power and be sexy at the same time.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Sexy, Thinking, Men

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• The lesson this teaches and which every Afro-American should ponder well, is that a Winchester rifle should have a place of honor in every black home, and it should be used for that protection which the law refuses to give. When the white man who is always the aggressor knows he runs as great a risk of biting the dust every time his Afro-American victim does, he will have greater respect for Afro-American life. The more the Afro-American yields and cringes and begs, the more he has to do so, the more he is insulted, outraged and lynched.

  Ida B. Wells

  Running, Home, Men

  Ida B. Wells-Barnett (2014). “On Lynchings”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• Have you ever wondered, perhaps, why opinions which the majority of people quite naturally hold are, if anyone dares express them publicly, denounced as 'controversial, 'extremist', 'explosive', 'disgraceful', and overwhelmed with a violence and venom quite unknown to debate on mere political issues? It is because the whole power of the aggressor depends upon preventing people from seeing what is happening and from saying what they see.

  Enoch

  Issues, People, Political

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