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Quotes About Aggression

You can't just physically beat a man and expect him not to retaliate. Insults, slaps, threats go just so far. You've got to go for the jugular. You've got to finish the job in a clean sweep. What do the French call it? Coup de grace, as believe. I did learn a few things from living with Charlie.
~ Connie May Fowler
You keep runnin that mouth and I'm goin to take you back there and screw you.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Ye carry war of a madman's making onto a foreign land. Ye'll wake more than the dogs.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Toadvine was four steps above him and when he kicked him he caught him in the throat.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Colonel. I'm here to kill people. And if I dont get to kill people I'm going to be a hard motherfucker to live with. And if you're not here to kill people you need to let me know. Because I dont want to work for you. And then he hung the phone up. And I knew that he was my kind of guy. He was a warmongering motherfucker.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Hack away... the old man raised the axe and split the head of John Glannon to the thrapple.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Bloody brutes!
~ Cornelia Funke
Blood just draws more blood.
~ Cressida Cowell
You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.
~ D.J. MacHale
They're strangers but they still find reasons to hurt each other.
~ Walter Dean Myers
I'll just walk into Steve's office, pull down my pants and urinate on his desk. What could he say to that. It's guaranteed to work.
~ Walter Isaacson
What drives people to kill and maim each other so savagely?" Einstein asked. "I think it is the sexual character of the male that leads to such wild explosions.
~ Walter Isaacson
A secret to being more revered than resented, he learned, was to display (at least when he could muster the discipline) a self-deprecating humor, unpretentious demeanor, and unaggressive style in conversation.
~ Walter Isaacson
Violence breeds violence
~ Walter Isaacson
Male bonding groups are associations of loners. The male values a companion whom he can stand up against and who can stand up against him: each receives assurance from the other's decently adversative stance, for it reminds him of his own needs and resources. This masculine intense friendly aggression is foreign to most women's experience.
~ Walter J. Ong
When the Third Reich swallowed one Central European country after another, this was attributed to bluff and bluster.
~ Walter Lord
I hit him more times than necessary but by then my actions were mostly chemical, like a soldier ant or a teenager in love.
~ Walter Mosley
I'm going to shit in your lungs for this.
~ Warren Ellis
Carnstein, with a soft smile and a grace and attention that bordered on the tender, very precisely beat Isaac Goldmark to death.
~ Warren Ellis
If you carry a weapon, it is always to kill. Do not think it is to defend yourself. If you draw your weapon, never get closer than three meters to the person you want to kill,
~ Charles Kaiser
Many children growing up in troubled or dysfunctional families learn how to be either aggressive or manipulative or to sit back or withdraw. They don't get what they want or need. They almost never see assertiveness being modeled, are rarely taught to be assertive and thus grow up to be adults who operate by being either aggressive, and/or manipulative or passive, "people pleasers," or a combination of these.
~ Charles L. Whitfield
As the first baseman posed these well-crafted queries, Collins went looking for a policeman to arrest Cobb for "striking him while he was wearing eyeglasses," then considered an especially heinous offense.
~ Charles Leerhsen
I have observed that whenever you try to hit somebody, there is a tendency for them to try to hit you back.
~ Charles M. Schulz
I'd take this book and beat you to death with it, and I wouldn't feel a thing.
~ Charles Manson