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Quotes About Aggression

De repente, los machos más moderados tuvieron acceso a las hembras e, increíble pero cierto, los machos jóvenes adoptaron unos modales más pacíficos a partir de la siguiente generación. Lo que había cambiado en el espacio de una generación evidentemente no eran los genes sino la educación: los recién nacidos machos no tenían un modelo de agresividad que imitar
~ Unknown
Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women—with babies to protect from harm—have had to become aggressive and violent.
~ Naomi Alderman
Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women—with babies to protect from harm—have had to become aggressive and violent. The few partial patriarchies that have ever existed in human society have been very peaceful places.
~ Naomi Alderman
I feel instinctively - and I hope you do, too - that a world run by men would be more kind, more gentle, more loving and naturally nurturing. Have you thought about the evolutionary psychology of it? Men have evolved to be strong worker homestead-keepers, while women - with babies to protect from harm - have had to become aggressive and violent. The few partial patriarchies that have ever existed in human society have been very peaceful places.
~ Naomi Alderman
You might not be so lucky if you keep looking at my wife like that," he snarls.
~ Unknown
For the maintenance of peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks which forerun cannon-shots.
~ Napoleon
Changing from the defensive to the offensive, is one of the most delicate operations in war.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
War is the business of barbarians.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.
~ Napoleon Hill
Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault.
~ Nat Hentoff
Aggression and depression sound like two different, even polarized phenomena, but they're not. Depression is aggression turned inward, directed against the self, or the imagined, threatening self. A seriously depressed person may look anesthetized to an observer, but the depressed person is never anesthetized to herself. She may wish to be, and she may seek to be with chemical aid, but she cannot truly placate her sneering, jabbering, nested aggressor.
~ Natalie Angier
This time, as with every time, when the fighting starts it will be more terrible than the fight that came before. Always it is the worst, the most violent, the least restrained, a steady escalation. The singular rule.
~ Nathan Englander
At the sight of their heroes and heroines, the crowd would turn demoniac. Some little gesture, either too pleasing or too offensive, would start it moving and then nothing but machine guns would stop it. Individually the purpose of its members might simply to be to get a souvenir, but collectively it would grab and rend.
~ Nathanael West
A dirty player Is somebody who ultimately is trying to hurt somebody. There's a huge difference. There's no gray in that. Like, you have no conscience, no nothing, no guilt. I don't have that mean streak in me. I don't play angry. It's not anger.
~ Ndamukong Suh
Given the aggression shown by Nazi Germany by the end of summer 1939, such a bomb, if it could be built, might be needed in a world on the precipice of war. Plans to obtain it were rapidly put together on both sides.
~ Neal Bascomb
Rape was about violence, hate and dominance. Sex had little to do with it.
~ Nevada Barr
Plainly the Kaiser knew his men ... so he sent them forth to bayonet babes, violate old women, murder old men, crucify officers, violate nuns, sink Lusitanias , and turn solemn treaties into scraps of paper.
~ Newell Dwight Hillis
if piety and patriotism ever had a bedfellow, it was violence.
~ Unknown
Human-to-human cruelty is worse than that of beast to human. Worse still is the cruelty among neighbors when it drives them To raise machetes, spears, arrows, and clubs against one another.
~ Ng?g? wa Thiong'o
War is just when it is necessary arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
The Spanish were furious with the French.
~ Unknown
The French waited a couple of minutes and fired again. That shot fell alongside.
~ Unknown
High-protein diets can cause elevated levels of aggression, especially territorial aggression such as Bailey was showing. So Jack and Sarah needed to change Bailey's diet.
~ Nicholas Dodman