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Quotes About Aggression

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
~ Hans Kung
To be violent is the ultimate laziness. War always seems a great effort, but it is the easy way. And false non-violence is also an idol.
~ Peter Brook
An escalating, violent tit-for-tat may lead to terrorism.
~ Mary Douglas
The only thing I learnt in high school is that people are very violent and territorial.
~ Gerard Way
The world is too violent right now.
~ Jackie Chan
By all measures men are the more violent gender.
~ Steven Pinker
Violence is the first refuge of the violent.
~ Aaron Allston
Football is an awesome sport, but it's also a violent sport, and that's why all of us love it. We know what we checked in for, and at seven years of age, that's what I wanted to do with my life, and I didn't care that I got hurt.
~ Terry Bradshaw
I was always a sensitive, sweet kid, but I got brutalized and I became brutal. And frankly, I don't think it was my natural makeup. I don't think its anyone's natural makeup to be a violent brawler.
~ Andre Dubus III
It's kind of hard for boxing, which is a violent sport, to get the respect that it deserves.
~ Daniel Jacobs
We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal.
~ Maurice Sendak
Just being in the military, you're so violent. We got into fights about just random things all the time. I don't think as aggressively as I did when I was in the Marine Corps.
~ Adam Driver
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
~ Dirk Kempthorne
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
~ Richard King
Violent statements and threats cannot provide a solution to the problem. They can only exacerbate feeling and make a clash of forces inevitable.
~ Stafford Cripps
We play a violent sport.
~ Shaun Alexander
Pre-state societies were far more violent than our own.
~ Steven Pinker
Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.
~ Madeleine M. Kunin
The United States is a violent military state. It's been involved in military action all over the place.
~ Noam Chomsky
Video games offer violent messages, and even the sports video games include taunting and teasing.
~ Geoffrey Canada
Football is a violent sport. Somebody's going to get hurt. It's the game. Just hopefully, you're on the good side of it.
~ Ndamukong Suh
The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith