Definition of Aggression

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Definition of Aggression
	Aggression The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Related Definitions: Act, Aggression, As, Assault, Attack, Controversy, First, Hostility, Injury, Leading, Of, Or, Power, The, To, War

Aggression Quotations

History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
Ronald Reagan

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
Sigmund Freud

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.
George W. Bush

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
Bette Davis

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.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
Jimmy Carter

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.
Marshall McLuhan

Aggression Translations

aggression in Dutch is agressie
aggression in French is agression
aggression in Norwegian is aggresjon

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