Aggressor Quotes

Historical lines on identifying and resisting an aggressor.

These Aggressor quotes span a 1939 wartime drama where the aggressor and the fight are described as unmistakably clear, to a philosophical claim that any state can act as an aggressor toward its own people. Related ideas continue in Action quotes.


Later foreign-policy history surfaces too, referencing a well-documented case of a leader who invaded neighboring countries and used chemical weapons. For a broader look at pushing back under pressure, see Abide quotes.