They leave the genitals off Barbie and Ken, but they manufacture every kind of war toy. Because sex is more threatening to us than aggression. There have been strict rules about sex since the beginning of written rules, and even before, if we can believe myth. I think that's because it's in sex that men feel most vulnerable. In war, they can hype themselves up, or they have a weapon. Sex means being literally naked and exposing your feelings. And that's more terrifying to most men than the risk of dying while fighting a bear or a soldier.

— Marilyn French

They want us to be afraid. They want us to be afraid of leaving our homes. Furthermore, they want us to barricade our doors and hide our children. Their aim is to make us fear life itself! They want us to hate. They want us to hate 'the other'. Furthermore, they want us to practice aggression and perfect antagonism. Their aim is to divide us all! They want us to be inhuman. They want us to throw out our kindness. Furthermore, they want us to bury our love and burn our hope. Their aim is to take all our light! They think their bricked walls will separate us. They think their damned bombs will defeat us. Furthermore, they are so ignorant they don’t understand that my soul and your soul are old friends. Furthermore, they are so ignorant they don’t understand that when they cut you I bleed. Furthermore, they are so ignorant they don’t understand that we will never be afraid, we will never hate, and we will never be silent for life is ours!

— Kamand Kojouri

They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.

— Herbert Spencer

Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.

— William Shakespeare

Through all of those different wars, we came to understand each other. The Mason’s fellas just wanted to chill in their area and be left alone. The Border Boys basically wanted the same thing. Stinky and Robert just wanted to be able to sell their drugs and make their money. But us, we were on a mission to take over the whole town. Scrooge, former leader of the Rebellion Raiders street gang that once boasted of having some ten thousand members

— Drexel Deal

To create a free society is not to accomplish the impossible task of convincing all people to abandon aggression, but to accomplish the essential task of convincing enough people to abandon the belief that aggression is ever legitimate.

— Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski

Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggression, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts.

— Ryszard Kapuściński

Vengeance against predators is meals on wheels.

— Stefan Molyneux

War has been the necessary and inevitable consequence of the establishment of a monopoly on security.

— Gustave de Molinari

What do nations care about the cost of war, if by spending a few hundred millions in steel and gunpowder they can gain a thousand millions in diamonds and cocoa?

— W.E.B. Du Bois