Quotes About Aggressor

#1. I will be harsh and stern against the aggressor, but I will be a pillar of strength for the weak.I will not calm down until I will put one cheek of a tyrant on the ground and the other under my feet, and for the poor and weak, I will put my cheek on the ground.

Umar

#2. Forgiveness was work, Eduardo told victims' families
but so, then, was love, and deciding what was right, and defending it. Recusing yourself from judgment so you won't be tainted by the aggressor's sin is the same as turning away from empathy so you won't be touched by the victim's pain.

Jennifer DuBois

#3. What the American people want to do is fight a war without getting hurt. You can't do that any more than you can get into a barroom fight without getting hurt ... Unless the American people are willing to send their sons out to fight an aggressor, there just isn't going to be any United States.

Chesty Puller

#4. 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

#5. No Big Power in all history ever thought of itself as an aggressor. That is still true today.

A.J. Muste

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

Martin Amis

#7. I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet.

Dominic Monaghan

#8. Most of my fights, I push the pace. I'm the aggressor.

Clay Guida

#9. I believe that we now have a duty to remove the aggressor from our land and to regain the Arab territory occupied by the Israelis. We can then engage in a clandestine struggle to liberate the land of Palestine, to liberate Haifa and Jaffa.

Gamal Abdel Nasser

#10. When nonviolence begins halfway through the war with the aggressor calling time out, it exposes itself as a ruse.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

#11. Interchangeable ever were the terms of abuse with which the aggressor discredits those about to be ravaged!

Malcolm Lowry

#12. Soviet rocket troops possess enough equipment to be able, if need be, to sweep any aggressor from the face of the earth at whatever point of the globe he may be and whatever military power, territory, or economy he may possess.

Sergey Biryuzov

#13. Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.

Brent Scowcroft

#14. No matter what Germany or Germans did, it was because they were defending themselves from international Jewry. The Jews were always the aggressor, the Germans always the victims.

Timothy Snyder

#15. Allah is on our side. That is why we will beat the aggressor.

Saddam Hussein

#16. But to cut off relations with an aggressor may often invite retaliation by armed action, and this would, in its turn, make necessary some form of collective self-defence by the loyal members of the League.

Arthur Henderson

#17. Whoever uses force without Right ... puts himself into a state of War with those, against whom he uses it, and in that state all former Ties are canceled, all other Rights cease, and every one has a Right to defend himself, and to resist the Aggressor.

John Locke

#18. The nature of a panther is that he never attacks. But if anyone attacks or backs into a corner, the panther comes up to wipe that aggressor or that attacker out.

Huey Newton

#19. Against naked force the only possible defense is naked force. The aggressor makes the rules for such a war; the defenders have no alternative but matching destruction with more destruction, slaughter with greater slaughter.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#20. But you said that if the U.S. were to fall or founder during your lifetime, collapse economically, be overrun by an aggressor, or corrupt from within into something vicious, you would weep. I

Lionel Shriver

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

Jawaharlal Nehru

#22. 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

#23. War is the greatest of all crimes; and yet there is no aggressor who does not color his crime with the pretext of justice.

Voltaire

#24. In no other type of warfare does the advantage lie so heavily with the aggressor.

James Franck

#25. Indifference elicits no response. Indifference is not a response. Indifference is not a beginning; it is an end. And, therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor - never his victim, whose pain is magnified when he or she feels forgotten.

Elie Wiesel

#26. When an aggressor force continually launches attacks from a particular base of operations, it is sound military strategy to take the flight to the enemy.

Timothy McVeigh

#27. 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

#28. In 'The King's Speech,' patriotism is utterly contained within a historical moment, the third of September, 1939, where the aggressor is clear, the fight is clear, it hasn't become complicated over time.

Tom Hooper

#29. At the U.N., any nation that fights back is censored as an "aggressor."

Sam Levenson

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#31. The firm has two cats, one for the warehouse and one for the attic. Now it occasionally happen that the two cats met; and the result was always a terrific fight. The aggressor was always the warehouse cat yet it was always the attic cat who managed to win - just like among nations.

Anne Frank

#32. What I mean is that you should never initiate an aggressive act, but if one is initiated against you or another innocent person, you should respond in such a way that ensures that the aggressor is the one who regrets the encounter.

Abraham Thornton

#33. Libertarians regard the state as the Supreme, the eternal, the best organized aggressor against the persons and property of the mass of the public. All states everywhere, whether democratic, dictatorial, or monarchical, whether red, white, blue or brown.

Murray Rothbard

#34. The second is that the American people tend to oppose whoever they see as the aggressor in the Culture Wars - whoever they see as trying to intrusively impose their values on other people and bullying everyone who disagrees.

Yuval Levin

#35. History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.

Ronald Reagan

#36. In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this should be so, for without its onslaughts and depredations humanity might fall to a fat slumber upon its cornsacks and die snoring.

James Stephens

#37. Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become ... a far greater aggressor.

John Hospers

#38. Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!

Erich Maria Remarque

#39. Wars are not caused by the buildup of weapons. They are caused when an aggressor believes he can achieve his objectives at an acceptable price.

Margaret Thatcher

#40. To those who don't know the historical truth, I would like to say today, Poland was not an aggressor but a victim during the Second World War.

Ewa Kopacz

#41. An aggressor nation or extremist group could gain control of critical switches and derail passenger trains, or trains loaded with lethal chemicals.

Leon Panetta

#42. All War Departments are now Defense Departments. This is all part of the doubletalk of our time. The aggressor is always on the other side.

George Wald

#43. In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence, ignorance is generally the aggressor.

Paul Harris

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

Marjane Satrapi

#45. We have helped to organize the United Nations. We believe it will stop aggressor nations from starting wars. Because we believe it, we intend to support the United Nations organization with all the power and resources we possess.

James F. Byrnes

#46. 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

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

Moshe Dayan

#48. 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

#49. two A-4 Skyhawks from VFC-13's aggressor squadron to taxi by. He swallowed

Dan Zimberoff

#50. 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 ... or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

Benjamin Tucker

#51. The warehouse cat was always the aggressor, while the attic cat was ultimately the victor, just as in politics.

Anne Frank

#52. Maybe you receive pain selfishly - thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.

Bryant McGill

#53. Usually, a well thought answer makes an aggressor think twice.

Helio Gracie

#54. According to the teachings of Islam, war is to be waged not against the enemy but against the aggressor. (p. 49)

Maulana Wahiduddin Khan

#55. Who knows why women aren't - obviously, rock 'n' roll, I keep saying this, but aggressive and in a way that is sexually aggressive, like the singer is the aggressor. And people don't want to see girls in that position. They would rather go after them.

Kristen Stewart

#56. In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor, ... I underscore the verb 'stop.' I'm not saying 'bomb' or 'make war,' just 'stop.' And the means that can be used to stop them must be evaluated.

Pope Francis

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

Angelina Jolie

#58. They jumped on us. They were the aggressor. They had us on our heels from the beginning.

LeBron James

#59. Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive.

Dean Rusk

#60. History laughs at both the victim and the aggressor.

Mahmoud Darwish

#61. The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

Marcus Aurelius

#62. Being tolerant does not mean acquiescing to the intolerable; it does not mean covering up disrespect; it does not mean coddling the aggressor or disguising aggression. Tolerance is the virtue that teaches us to live with the different. It teaches us to learn from and respect the different.

Paulo Freire

#63. It's always the same with these bogus equivalences: They start by pretending loftily to find no difference between aggressor and victim, and they end up by saying that it's the victim of violence who is "really" inciting it.

Christopher Hitchens