Quotes About Aggression

Whoever said violence never solved anything doesn't know what he's talking about. Violence is the only language some people understand. Not that I'm fluent, but I know enough to get by.

No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.

The human capacity for subjective victimhood is apparently limitless, and people who believe that they are victims can be motivated to perform acts of great violence.

After Hitler's rise in 1933, he pursued domestic policy for more than six years before he began his first war.

Europeans and Americans wasted time by asking whether an invasion had taken place, whether Ukraine was a country, and whether it had somehow deserved to be invaded. This revealed a capacious vulnerability that Russia soon exploited within the European Union and the United States.

There is always more spirit in attack than in defence.

As far as thinking about death and murder and various ways of killing people and how people die... I probably have the most twisted mind in Slayer.

The ego develops a defense in order to protect itself against being overcome by unconscious demands such as sex and aggression. The work of the psychoanalyst is to get the person to become conscious of their instinctual urges, which may involve isolating the pain experienced when they were originally confronted by an unsatisfied impulse.

Harlow observed that when his baby monkeys grew up, they had many things wrong with them. Instead of the normal range of responses, they swung between clinging attachment and destructive aggression, often tearing at their body or shredding bits of cloth or paper. Even as adults they had to cling to soft, furry things, and did not seem to know the difference between living and inanimate objects. Though

When individuals become angry with one another, an injury of some sort will likely occur. When governments become angry, entire civilisations are wiped out.

It's good to be good at playing defence, but the best defence is a strong offence.

My entire business model is to go on offense.

In politics as in sports, the best defense is a good offense.

My greatest defense was my offense. Very few guys did that.

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

A lot of teams get a lot of offense off the rush.

When you're desperate, it's good on defense because your hair should be on fire, but it's bad on offense.

I love offensive coaches.

It's an offensive league.

Just play hard, compete, energy, hit the offensive glass.

It's an offensive league. All the rules cater to the offense.

It's an offensive foul if you go into the defender's body, but if I fade and a guy runs into my leg, it's a foul.

You know, I just feel physically that I can get a lot of offensive rebounds.

A great defensive lineman causes problems all day long for an offensive line - problems that don't have a way of getting into the official stats.