Quotes About Aggression

No century has been more concerned than ours to do away with war: it has proved signally unsuccessful. All too little attention has been given to the phenomenon that internal politics have become increasingly more warlike.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

A man with a knife making threats." "Ooooh. Big bad man with big bad knife." Stan Jessup, two ex-wives, six kids, short temper.

For all who draw the sword will die by the sword.

When language fails, violence becomes a language.

Lucas grabs a pair of barber shears and presses a blade into Capone's jugular vein. "Yeah, I know who you are, grease ball. And if you don't get back to the end of the line, I'm going to know who you were.

The 1930s taught us a clear lesson: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to grow unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war. This nation is opposed to war. We are also true to our word. Our unswerving objective, therefore, must be to prevent the use of these missiles against this or any other country and to secure their withdrawal or elimination from the Western Hemisphere.

It is my fondest desire to bust a host of caps into multitudes of fleshy personages.

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

Whoever I have to face has to feel the wrath.

Usually if I wreck someone, it's on purpose - because I don't wreck a lot of people.

Every nation should wrestle with the question of what it means to defend itself, what it means to take revenge.

A boy on the team, who shall remain nameless, constantly picked on me during practice. I bided my time, and when I had the chance to wrestle him, I took every advantage I could. I bent fingers, dug my nails into his skin and rammed my elbow into various, tender, parts of him. I basically beat him down in front of the whole team.

When I was a wrestler, my job was mostly looking mean and throwing punches and kicks.

I was a striker before a wrestler. I've always wanted to knock people out.

I'll use wrestling if I need to in fights, but maybe I'll fight another wrestler, and you'll find out how good my striking is.

I've always been a defensive wrestler, but when I go in there in the fights, I get so caught up in trying to knock people's heads off that wrestling goes out the window when you're throwing punches and kicks and stuff.

I came into this game a wrestler and that was pretty much it. I was tough, I could take a guy down and beat him up. I threw a good overhand right.

Wrestling is ballet with violence.

You would think that wrestling has so much to do with being aggressive and having a big ego, and it's exactly the opposite.

Wrestling is second nature: I've been doing it for so long, so if it looks like someone's leg is available, it made sense for my first three fights that I would shoot for legs.

When I head into the cage for an MMA fight, for that time inside the cage, I hate the person standing across the cage. I want to beat him up and beat him up to the point where he never wants to go against me again. After the fight, I can shake his hands, and he - we can be best friends. It's the same thing in professional wrestling.

I have jiu-jitsu, wrestling... I like to do everything, especially knocking people out. People like fights like that.

Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.