#warlike

Some parents say it is toy guns that make boys warlike. But give a boy a rubber duck and he will seize its neck like the butt of a pistol and shout "Bang!" ↗

— George Will

#boy #duck #give #guns #like

The Romans, we are told, were by nature a peculiarly warlike race. ↗

— Goldwin Smith

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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#history #most #nations #powerful #republics

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#almost #always #back #behavior #characteristic

The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

#commissioners #design #directed #england #force

There are no warlike people - just warlike leaders. ↗

— Ralph Bunche

#leaders #people #warlike

Everything connected with war and warlike exploits is interesting to a boy. ↗

— James Nasmyth

#connected #everything #exploits #interesting #war