Noun
Inclination or readiness to fight; quarrelsomeness.
Source: Webster's dictionaryModern war is so expensive that we feel trade to be a better avenue to plunder; but modern man inherits all the innate pugnacity and all the love of glory of his ancestors. William James
There are who mistake the spirit of pugnacity for the spirit of piety, and thus harbor a devil instead of an angel. John Lancaster Spalding
The current rampages of territorial-emotional pugnacity sweeping this planet are not just another civilization failing ... They are the birth-pangs of a cosmic Prometheus rising out of the long nightmare of domesticated primate history. Robert Anton Wilson
The fact that men are naturally quarrelsome is presumed to be an argument against such institutions as the League. But it is precisely the fact of the natural pugnacity of man that makes such institutions necessary. Norman Angell
Pugnacity is a form of courage, but a very bad form. Sinclair Lewis
There was only one virtue, pugnacity only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war. George Bernard Shaw