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Quotes About Aggression

Asked at one point why he had slain so many of his neighbors, Unruh replied: "I'd have killed a thousand if I'd had bullets enough."[55]
~ Harold Schechter
You damn morphodite, I'll kill you!
~ Harper Lee
I kicked the man swiftly. Barefooted, I was surprised to see him fall back in real pain. I intended to kick his shin, but aimed too high.
~ Harper Lee
Listen up—there's no war that will end all wars,' Crow tells me. 'War breeds war. Lapping up the blood shed by violence, feeding on wounded flesh. War is a perfect, self-contained being. You need to know that.
~ Haruki Murakami
Why do people wage war? Why do hundreds of thousands, even millions of people group together and try to annihilate each other? Do people start wars out of anger? Or fear? Or are anger and fear just two aspects of the same spirit?
~ Haruki Murakami
Violence never gives you a specific feeling that it's time to knock it off. That's because it is impossible to satisfy.
~ Heather O'Neill
But Calvinists have never been pacifists: they have always been all too ready for a fight.
~ Helen Hooven Santmyer
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
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.
~ Ingrid Newkirk
The Way Of The Fist' is not quite a Shakespearian depiction of anger and revenge. This song was more my way of releasing all the pent up aggression I felt against some people who wronged me beyond the point of any kind of forgiveness or mercy.
~ Ivan Moody
When I joined the WWE, Dave 'Fit' Finley was our first agent that we worked with all the time and he brought in another form of aggression in me.
~ Gail Kim
If I can't outplay you in football, I'm gonna fight ya.
~ Brock Lesnar
Two teams trying to win a football game at the end of the season is going to be chippy. It's going to be everything from pushing and shoving to fighting for extra yards.
~ Devin McCourty
Yeah, she was hitting me hard. She was drunk and she was hitting me hard.
~ David Gest
Yeah, I mean there's points in every game where you get a hit and you feel a little woozy. Not every game, but mostly every game you hit someone and you're like, 'Whoa, that was a good one.'
~ Brian Urlacher
I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.
~ Joe Greene
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
~ George W. Bush
One of the criticisms I've faced over the years is that I'm not aggressive enough or assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong.
~ Jacinda Ardern
Gang violence in America is not a sudden problem. It has been a part of urban life for years, offering an aggressive definition and identity to those seeking a place to belong in the chaos of large metropolitan areas.
~ Dave Reichert
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression.
~ Brent Scowcroft
I have a lot of road rage. Mostly with the rickshaw and cab drivers trying to cut me; it's the traffic. Grrrr!
~ Kajol
Patrick Cote, that would be one way traffic. I'd destroy the guy.
~ Michael Bisping
Cain Velasquez attacks more, and throws more punches and kicks. It's hard to fight against him. He's very athletic, you can see that from his fights with 'Cigano,' but Werdum trains hard and is a great fighter.
~ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira
Controlled aggression, to me, is one of the most important traits to have. To have that social intelligence to know when to exert aggression in the military environment, and when to stay calm, cool, and collected.
~ Jonny Kim