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Quotes About Aggression

Only the fact of my broken limbs prevents me from leaping at your throat.
~ Jack Vance
I dare not kill you. But I can break more bones, and you will walk sideways like a crab.
~ Jack Vance
Hard, his hands on my shoulders; my head rocked with the force of his fury as he shook me. Ah, Elua, it was sweet! The violence of it was spark to tinder for me.
~ Jacqueline Carey
broken buildings like jagged teeth in the mouth of a mad dog...
~ Jacqueline Winspear
Balsillie followed two Sun Tzu tactics religiously: appear strong no matter how weak your hand; and move to uneven terrain if an aggressor is overwhelming. For Balsillie, rugged ground meant keeping competitors, suppliers, and customers off balance.
~ Jacquie McNish
Los colombianos constantemente buscaban excusas para verter más sangre. De
~ Jaime Manrique
if a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere;
~ James A. Michener
a nation is totally geared to the waging of war, it had better ensure that war keeps occurring somewhere; and
~ James A. Michener
There they stood, in twos and threes and fours, in their Cub Scout uniforms and with their Cub Scout faces, totally unprepared, as is the way with American he-men, for anything that could not be settled with a club or a fist or a gun.
~ James Baldwin
On the evening of November 1, at a campaign rally in Philadelphia, Eisenhower addressed the tensions in the Mediterranean by letting fly a salvo of antitribal idealism, declaring, "We cannot and will not condone armed aggression—no matter who the attacker, and no matter who the victim. We cannot—in the world, any more than in our own nation—subscribe to one law for the weak, another law for the strong; one law of those opposing us, another for those allied with us.
~ James D. Hornfischer
Distinctions were being drawn between officers who were battle-minded and those whose savage instincts were reserved for advancing their own careers. Qualities that got you ahead in peacetime were yielding to skills equally ageless, but prized only in desperate times: a glint in the eye, a forward-leaning, balls-of-the-feet bearing, a constitutional aspect of professionalized aggression.
~ James D. Hornfischer
Matsura dribbled blood on the table. Ace threw a head shot. Matsura screamed. Gold bridgework flew.
~ James Ellroy
On my first day in jail, a three hundred pound man named Porterhouse hit me in the back of the head with a metal tray. I was standing in line for lunch and I didn't see it coming. I went down. When I got up, I turned around and started throwing punches. (James Frey, pg.1)
~ James Frey
I'll kill you to death till you're dead and die, you Sons of Whores
~ James Frey
The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.
~ Paul Cook
Combat is a piece of war. But war is a totalizing, uncivilized experience.
~ Abigail Disney
Spence hasn't been in a ring with an animal like me. I have to be a dog, touch him and make him feel me. He won't be able to catch my rhythms. I pride myself on making people uncomfortable.
~ Shawn Porter
I sleep people. I put people unconscious. I'm stating facts.
~ Conor McGregor
People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
~ Barbara Deming
There is such a thing as building a fight, that's no problem, we're going into fight each other. That takes certain levels of intensity that you have to have. You're going in there to hurt the guy and he's going to do the same to you so that's understandable.
~ Artem Lobov
If someone is undertaking aggressive military activities in Ukraine and Syria, if someone is bolstering his military presence near his neighbors... then we have an unequivocal answer regarding who wants to start a new Cold War. Certainly, it is not Poland or the NATO alliance.
~ Andrzej Duda
Science & Love have progressed "either" ways with growth of violence!
~ Vishwanath S J
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate
~ Alan Brien
Man's greatest joy is to slay his enemy, plunder his riches, ride his steeds, see the tears of his loved ones and embrace his women
~ Genghis Khan