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Quotes About Aggression

That conniving little slut," Pokey said. "I'd like to rip her arms off and beat her to death with 'em.
~ Mary Kay Andrews
Being angry is not just being slightly feverish; it is confronting a world in which other people look more hostile and threatening than they normally would. Actions of others which would normally appear harmless now seem like attacks upon one. The angry person is shorter than usual on confidence and serenity, and more inclined for aggression. He easily believes himself to be wronged. And so on
~ Mary Midgley
And ever since, the U.S. Army has gone confidently into battle, knowing that when cows attack, their men will be ready.
~ Mary Roach
Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love or just because… No matter how pathetic the reason, it's enough to start war. War will never cease to exist… reasons can be thought up after the fact… Human nature pursues strife.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Our children can play together…while my boy kills yours.
~ Masashi Kishimoto
Si soffermò a riflettere sul proprio comportamento. A casa della vittima si entra in punta di piedi e scalzi, a casa della madre dell'eventuale aggressore si entra a passi pesanti. Ma chi è più vittima dell'altra, di queste due donne?
~ Mats Wahl
homini lupus', said Plautus. 'Man is a wolf to man.
~ Matt Ridley
men have killed men much more often – on average about ninety-seven times more often – than women have killed women.
~ Matt Ridley
One survey shows that throughout the world and throughout history, from thirteenth-century England to modern Canada, from Kenya to Mexico, men have killed men much more often – on average about ninety-seven
~ Matt Ridley
As if men did not die fast enough, they are ingenious at finding out ways to destroy one another.
~ Matthew Henry
There's an Oriental saying I like: "If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.
~ Matthew Reilly
Villagers love to remember the glorious old days, when they used to skewer one another with sticks, fire muskets into one another's faces, and cut off their neighbors' heads in the name of king or country or whatever they were into back then.
~ Maureen Johnson
Charles had a look on his face said, I'm not angry, but I am disappointed. Dr. Quinn's expression said, He's passive-aggressive. I'm not. I am aggressive. I have killed before.
~ Maureen Johnson
Charles was dressed more casually than normal, in a heavy fleece and sweatpants. Dr. Quinn rose to the occasion in a rose-gray cashmere sweater, a sweeping wool skirt, black cashmere tights, and tall black boots. No amount of cold was going to rob her of her queenly graces. Charles had a look on his face that said, I'm not angry, but I am disappointed. Dr. Quinn's expression said, He's passive-aggressive. I'm not. I am aggressive. I have killed before.
~ Maureen Johnson
Get the hell out of my way!
~ Ayn Rand
deadly aggression is a major, evolution-shaped, innate potential that, given the right conditions, has always been easily triggered. However, its ocurrence and prevalence are subject to wide fluctuations, depending on the prominence of these conditions.
~ Azar Gat
All his life had been a struggle for power—not political power, which he disdained, but the power of culture. For him culture and civilization were everything. He had said that the greatest freedom of man was his "independence of thought," which enabled the artist to enjoy the "aggression of infinite modes of being.
~ Azar Nafisi
He had said that the greatest freedom of man was his "independence of thought," which enabled the artist to enjoy the "aggression of infinite modes of being.
~ Azar Nafisi
If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.
~ Barack Obama
Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
Emmy said Kent and June didn't use weapons, just mouths, both parties packing serious heat in that department. Kent was a yeller, but mouthwise, June was an AR-15. Instant reload, engineered to kill.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
mouthwise, June was an AR-15. Instant reload, engineered to kill.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
Some vicious thing inside me stirred. I felt it in my gut, the back of my neck, my hands. I thought of Musashi, the master swordsman, who wrote, You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy.
~ Barry Eisler
You must think of neither victory nor of defeat, but only of cutting and killing your enemy. I
~ Barry Eisler