Aggressive Power Quotes

Germany was beaten after World War I, but it didn't take long for it to rise again as a much more malignant threat. The end of World War II was not to be a compromise; it was to come about from the total annihilation of the enemies' ability and will to make war.

For four hundred years the foreign policy of England has to oppose the strongest, most aggressive, most dominating Power on the Continent …

He (Saddam Hussein) has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction. He is unable to project conventional power against his neighbours.

What I love about tennis is the gracefulness. It's an aggressive and powerful game, but it takes touch and finesse.

Every great power, every aggressive power has always regarded itself as exceptional and as doing things only for the most moral ends.

Russia is like a hungry wolf let loose among the sheep. But after the feasting comes the digestion period. Russia will not be able to digest them all.

The castration of women has been carried out in terms of a masculine-feminine polarity, in which men have commandeered all the energy and streamlined it into an aggressive conquistadorial power, reducing all heterosexual contact to a sadomasochistic pattern.

What gave transcendent importance to the aggressiveness of power was the fact that its natural prey, its necessary victim, was liberty, or law, or right.