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Quotes About Aggression

We were ordinary men called upon to execute a dangerous mission whose outcome was far from certain. The only thing that was certain at that point was that the aggressor would not surrender.
~ Charles W. Sweeney
Tell them to drop their guns and fuck off out of my way. --Allow him to-- I clamp my arm tight. --That's not what I said. She gets it right this time. --Drop your guns and fuck off out of his way. They drop their guns and fuck off out of my way.
~ Charlie Huston
Only a loyal, determined struggle to destroy cultural aggression and bring out the truth, whatever it may be, is revolutionary and consonant with real progress; it is the only approach which opens on to the universal. Humanitarian declarations are not called for and add nothing to real progress.
~ Cheikh Anta Diop
I think I'll buy a selfie stick so whenever I see someone taking a selfie I can hit them with it.
~ Internet meme
In violence we forget who we are, just as we forget who we are when engaged in sheer perception.
~ Mary McCarthy
He who loves the bristle of bayonets only sees in their glitter what beforehand he feels in his heart. It is avarice and hatred; it is that quivering lip, that cold, hating eye, which built magazines and powder-houses.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "War"
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin to slit throats.
~ H. L. Mencken
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
~ H.L. Mencken
When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.
~ Haim G. Ginott
I introduced his head to the corner of the railing.
~ Hajime Kanzaka
She discovered she had disowned her anger so totally that when she was deeply irritated by her husband, she experienced not anger but overwhelming desire to go to sleep. When she learned her drowsiness was a substitute for natural aggression, she began to search for the anger concealed by her overwhelming fatigue. As soon as she became aware of her anger voice and learned what it wanted, the drowsiness disappeared.
~ Hal Stone
?ydzi jeszcze nie uporali si? ze swoj? polsk? spraw?. Z niemieck? tak, ale to by?o ?atwiejsze. ?atwiej wybacza si? zadawan? ?mier?, ni? poni?enie. Sprawy z Polakami to pami?? o poni?eniu i odtr?cone uczucie. Nic nie rodzi wi?kszej agresji i trwalszej nienawi?ci ni? odtr?cona, niepotrzebna mi?o??.
~ Hanna Krall
Happy During high school, I played junior hockey and still hold two league records most time spent in the penalty box and I was the only guy to ever take off his skate and try to stab somebody.
~ Happy Gilmore
It is a nasty world that only respects bullies.
~ Harry Harrison
A shot was fired, the mob jumped back for a second then set about the car with renewed fury. In the end, two men were taken out and shot dead. They were Corporals Derek Wood and Robert Howes.
~ Harry McCallion
Don't even try your bullshit with us...! You psycho idiot, certifiable, father-complex, bitch!
~ Haruka Takachiho
There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
~ Havelock Ellis
Your angry and jealous and in the mood to do some forceful dentistry
~ Heather Brewer
poverty always breeds violence in one way or another.
~ Heather Graham
If tearing someone's acrylic nails off, glue and all, and cramming them down her throat didn't look so unattractive, I would probably do just that to Drea right now.
~ Laurie Faria Stolarz
The most effective strategies do not depend solely on violence—though this can play an instrumental role, by demonstrating superiority as much as expressing aggression—but benefit instead from the ability to forge coalitions. Little in the rest of this book will suggest that this list should be expanded. The elements of strategic behavior have not changed, only the complexity of the situations in which they must be applied.
~ Lawrence Freedman
La acción de impedir los beneficios del otro mediante una creíble capacidad para detener la agresión en sus fases iniciales se conoció como «disuasión por negación»,[5] mientras que el aumento de los costes se denominó «disuasión por castigo». La negación era esencialmente otra palabra para denominar «defensa efectiva», la cual, si se comunicaba con suficiente antelación podía proporcionar un argumento convincente contra la agresión
~ Lawrence Freedman
Ants are among the most warlike of creatures. Their foreign policy has been described as "restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.
~ Lawrence Freedman
But sometimes children do not connect or reconnect so easily. They may feel so isolated that they retreat into a corner, or come out aggressively with both arms swinging. They may be annoying, obnoxious, or downright infuriating as they try desperately to signal us that they need more connection. These situations call for creating more playtime, not doling out punishment or leaving the lonely child all alone.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen