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Quotes About Aggression

Simons could not identify this ideal self-image with the dark side of his personality – the side which murdered. He attributed the identity of his original aggressor, namely his brother, to the murderous side of himself and said in his statement to the detectives that it was the spirit of his deceased brother who ordered him to murder the children.
~ Unknown
He experienced a severe rejection when his sister left the family when he was ten years old. She had abandoned him and he was very angry with her. Mhlengwa chose victims who represented his sister and raped them to act out the sexual fantasies of the Oedipus phase and he killed them to act out the aggressive fantasies that resulted from his anger at being rejected.
~ Unknown
By sodomising the boys, Wilken fell into the typical pattern of passive-active role reversal by identifying with the aggressor and selecting a victim like himself. When he sodomised and strangled 12-year-old Henry Bakers he even told Henry that he was going to do to him what was done to himself when he was a child of Henry's age.
~ Unknown
It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer. The process commences during the first five years of his life, whereafter he nurtures the most horrendous sexual and aggressive fantasies in which other human beings are subjugated to mere objects.
~ Unknown
The killer was bitter and revenge-motivated. He could not control his aggression. He felt that he had been a victim in life and had no internal locus of control. He would probably assault his wife and would not tolerate any resistance. The killer was cold-hearted and had absolutely no respect for human life.
~ Unknown
By nature, however, we are born ignorant. Therefore should we not try to learn? Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Some people produce more than the usual amount of androgens and therefore become excessively aggressive. Does that mean they should freely express violence? We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Practically every desire that has become part of human nature, from sexuality to aggression, from a longing for security to a receptivity to change, has been exploited as a source of social control by politicians, churches, corporations, and advertisers.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
People don't know how to love. They bite rather than kiss. They slap rather than stroke. Maybe it's because they recognize how easy it is for love to go bad, to become suddenly impossible... unworkable, an exercise of futility. So they avoid it and seek solace in angst, and fear, and aggression, which are always there and readily available. Or maybe sometimes... they just don't have all the facts.
~ Mike Binder
Probably cut off his balls and force him to eat them." I stated as a mere fact.
~ Mike Rogers
I love to hit people. I love to.
~ Mike Tyson
The gods of war have reawakened me. They've ignited my ego and want me to go to war again.
~ Mike Tyson
To play for a draw, at any rate with white, is to some degree a crime against chess.
~ Mikhail Tal
With human beings the urge to make peace takes some time to germinate, while Homo Sapiens is always ready to hate.
~ Unknown
How then does every man kill his brother?
~ Unknown
A man strikes his maternal brother.
~ Unknown
They were quarrelsome fellows and liked fighting so much, they even fought among themselves.
~ Unknown
ratovi su kao požari koje još nitko nije pogasio, a mogla bi ih pogasiti isklju?ivo sama ljudska pamet na temelju spoznaje da je rat diluvijalno divljaštvo, a da je današnji ?ovjek, ukoliko je to, naime ?ovjek, davno ve? prestao da bude kanibal.
~ Miroslav Krleža
People were always good at justifying their actions if there was a need, or even the appearance of one, and were quick to turn to violence when necessary.
~ Miyuki Miyabe
Todo el mundo sabía que las balas no tienen ojos, que las bombas no son muy dadas a pedir disculpas y que los soldados son como tigres que han bajado de la montaña, tigres que no son precisamente vegetarianos.
~ Mo Yan
War is the biggest ego trip of all time.
~ Unknown
Males are simple creatures. If we can't f**k it, we want to kill it.
~ Unknown
There is nothing in the world more harmful than war and more foolish than armament
~ Morihei Ueshiba
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
~ Morihei Ueshiba