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Quotes About Aggression

Toleration brings peace, hence intolerance leads to war.
~ Sipho P Nkosi
There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
~ Sir William Joseph Slim
I love to hit people. I love to.
~ Mike Tyson
If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.
~ Charlie Sheen
The love of weaponry is often a manifestation of infantile traits in an adult.
~ Hayao Miyazaki
When the leader of the pack springs and fails to kill, the rest of the pack tear him to pieces.
~ Max Brand
There is no need for reason in a mob. One has only to cry, "Kill!" and the mob will start of its own volition to find something that may be slain. Also
~ Max Brand
America is a very all-or-nothing society. We like the big win, the touchdown, the knockout in the first round. We like to know, and for everyone else to know, that our victory wasn't only uncontested, it was positively devastating.
~ Max Brooks
The only term I can think of is "bloodlust," because that's what it sounds like when chimps tear a monkey apart. It's not like any other kill you'd ever see, not like when a leopard brings down a gazelle or even sharks rip into a seal. Those are cold, mechanical. Apes go crazy. Hopping and dancing. Don't tell me they don't enjoy it.
~ Max Brooks
The book of war, the one we've been writing since one ape slapped another
~ Max Brooks
In that second I was wounded. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge. A poor, uneducated servant in Africa was so secure he could ignore established White rudeness. No Black American I had ever known knew that security. Our tenure in the United States, though long and very hard-earned, was always so shaky, we had developed patience as a defense, but never as aggression.
~ Maya Angelou
How do you maybe hit someone?" Michael drawled. "Okay, so I decked him. At the time he deserved it.
~ Maya Banks
You have two seconds to tell me what the fuck you did to her, or I start carving you up into tiny pieces. And it won't be quick and it won't be painless. I'll make you bleed and suffer, but you won't die. You'll only wish you had," Skylar spat.
~ Maya Banks
If I interrupted violence, by all means I'll step back. Always nice to see bloodshed first thing in the a.m.
~ Maya Banks
I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.
~ Meg Cabot
Surely it is counterproductive to expect sense from someone you are beating senseless.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
if you tease a dog, it bites.
~ Megan Whalen Turner
Islamophobia,' the thought-crime that seeks to suppress legitimate criticism of Islam and demonise those who would tell the truth about Islamist aggression.
~ Melanie Phillips
Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something.
~ Mercedes Lackey
Uppercuts always work. They're so satisfying, too.
~ Mercedes Lackey
There seems to be a fear that if men are raised to be people of integrity, people who can love, they will be unable to be forceful and act violently if needed.... We see that females that are raised with the traits any person of integrity embodies can act with tenderness, with assertiveness, and with aggression if and when aggression is needed.
~ bell hooks
Showing aggression is the simplest way to assert patriarchal manhood. Men of all classes know this. As a consequence, all men living in a culture of violence must demonstrate at some point in their lives that they are capable of being violent.
~ bell hooks
White supremacy has taught him that all people of color are threats irrespective of their behavior. Capitalism has taught him that, at all costs, his property can and must be protected. Patriarchy has taught him that his masculinity has to be proved by the willingness to conquer fear through aggression; that it would be unmanly to ask questions before taking action.
~ bell hooks
I had a large camping knife in my hand and without thinking, I lunged at him, plunging the knife into his abdomen.
~ Ben Carson