Quotes About Aggression

I don't initiate violence, I retaliate.

Nonviolence is a flop. The only bigger flop is violence.

Legitimate use of violence can only be that which is required in self-defense.

The fact is that violence gives you a rush.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Crime and violence are the easiest emotions to reenact.

In 'The Insider,' I had violence - lethal, life-taking aggression - all happening psychologically, all with people talking to other people.

Football is controlled violence, but it is violence, which people have loved to watch since the gladiatorial contests in ancient Rome.

Passive violence can be as simple as someone honking their horn at you for not turning fast enough when the light changes. And it can be highly complex, like when your co-worker undermines all of your work relationships by spreading rumors and lies about you. That's how passive violence rolls.

War has traditionally been a man's work, although we know that often women were the cause of violence.

I know, it's disturbing that gentle looking people have such violence, but I believe we all have a penchant for violence in us.

I'm not saying that women leaders would eliminate violence. We are not more moral than men; we are only uncorrupted by power so far. When we do acquire power, we might turn out to have an equal impulse toward aggression.

How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

War is an attempt of one group to impose its will upon another group by armed violence.

Violence is for mugs. War is for mugs.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.

It's pure Black Label. It's about violence and booze. That's all it is. There is no plan.

The application of military force, or the prospect of such application, inhibits terrorist violence.

There's more than one way to sense violence.

I run; I am a coward at heart. I swear, when I smell violence or aggression the coward comes out in me. I have no desire to fight anybody except myself.

Any football game, you can be hit one way or another. It's not the safest sport that we play; it's a beautifully violent game, and that's what, in part, I love about it.

Football is a violent sport, and if you don't kind of go to that dark place to be violent and be physical, you're not going to last very long.

I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.