Quotes About Aggression

Refraining—not habitually acting out impulsively—has something to do with giving up entertainment mentality. Through refraining, we see that there's something between the arising of the craving—or the aggression or the loneliness or whatever it might be—and whatever action we take as a result. There's something there in us that we don't want to experience, and we never do experience, because we're so quick to act.

When we hold on to our opinions with aggression, no matter how valid our cause, we are simply adding more aggression to the planet, and violence and pain increase. Cultivating nonaggression is cultivating peace.

As we change our own dysfunctional habits, we are simultaneously changing society. Our own awakening is intertwined with the awakening of enlightened society. If we can lose our personal appetite for aggression and addiction, the whole planet will rejoice.

When we don't act out and we don't repress, our passion, our aggression, and our ignorance become our wealth. We don't have to transform anything. Simply letting go of the story line is what it takes, which is not all that easy.

When people start to meditate or to work with any kind of spiritual discipline, they often think that somehow they're going to improve, which is a sort of subtle aggression against who they really are.

Instead of reacting aggressively when we're provoked, endlessly perpetuating the cycle of pain, we trust that we can engage with others from a place of curiosity and caring and in that way contact their innate decency and wisdom.

The main question is, are we living in a way that adds further aggression and self-centeredness to the mix, or are we adding some much-needed sanity?

Some ride the bullet to vent, while some shoot the bullet to revenge.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

We are all familiar with the argument: Make war dreadful enough, and there will be no war. And we none of us believe it.

A gun is not an argument.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression.

Art, in fact, can be nothing but violence, cruelty and injustice.

War is the highest form of modern art.

Attack is only one half of the art of boxing.

Art gives me an outlet where I can be aggressive in a world where I usually can't be.

Therefore the good fighter will be terrible in his onset, and prompt in his decision.

Unarmed hand-to-hand fighting does not change through the ages; only the name changes, and it has only one rule: do it first, do it fast, do it dirtiest.

He has turned defensive boxing into a poetic art. Trouble is, nobody ever knocked anybody out with a poem.

I'm going to teach you the art of swordsmanship-or in other words, how to totally kill someone with a sharp, pointy thing.

I want to learn martial arts," he said docilely, "so when I want to kill someone, I can do something about it.

In case of doubt, attack.