Quotes About Aggression

Is this what war is? Is this what men want so much? Is this sposed to make them men?

What else do men think about except sex and enemies?

it's been obvious since the beginning that wars make no sense. You kill people to tell them you want to stop killing them. Monsters of men, I think. And women.

A peace that blacked yer eye," I say. "A peace that split yer lip.

For a moment Jack felt the strongest inclination to snatch up his little gilt chair and beat the white-faced man down with it...

I'll string a fiddle with your guts and make you play it while I dance.

They fight like puppies. They are young, and boys. They are full of anger and impatience. Women have less trouble with these things. It's part of what makes us better fighters.

Only barbarians and madmen take pleasure in combat. Whoever

If he's fool enough to take a poke at me, I'll snap the finger clean off that does the poking.

Solo los bárbaros y los locos disfrutan con el combate.

One beer too many, and a verbal dispute suddenly and unexpectedly explodes into a punching match. Such things happen every night in bars, pubs, and cafés all across the world, but the bloody noses and aching jaws that generally follow from these dustups in Canada, Norway, or France often turn out to be gunshot wounds in the United States.

Not surprisingly, there's nothing to do at the Pentagon except start a war.

the essence of what General Douglas MacArthur said is right: All defense and no offense doesn't get you very far. General Patton provides supporting cover when he advised, "Never let the enemy choose the battlefield.

anger is always an issue of the heart before it is an act of physical aggression.

We can do without butter, but, despite all our love of peace, not without arms. One cannot shoot with butter but with guns.

My college coach, Joe Paterno at Penn State, once told me to stop thinking so much. "Buckle your chin strap and hit somebody. Play fast and hard, and something good will happen. Don't be afraid to lose.

chainlink fences topped with barbed wire, vacant lots covered with broken beer bottles, and Doberman pinschers with psychopathic personalities

Homo sapiens sapiens, the shy, murderous ape

impulsive aggression is an impulsive, hostile, even violent reaction, triggered by immediate threats of rejection or abandonment paired with frustration.

Lower your voice," he warned, but I'd had enough. As he reached for my arm again, I wrenched myself free and nearly flattened Boy Long in the process. I hadn't even seen him. Glancing between Jock and me quickly, gauging the situation, Boy said, "Is everything all right

What I have heard from the Mandan and Sioux is that the Comanche are perpetually in a state of war with everybody. A Brulé Sioux man, an old man, said they had come from beyond the Rocky Mountains and simply leapt on everybody like tigers.

War was invented was to allow men who never grew up to do the things they always wanted to do as kids: mess up their rooms, wear funny clothes, sleep in a room with a lot of strangers, dirty up other people's houses and then take their toys away.

Actually, some of the tackles looked more like assassination attempts to me.

Often, traumatized people either feel nothing or they feel rage, and often the rage is expressed in inappropriate ways. By beginning to get a sense of what healthy aggression feels like, the extremes of numbness and rage can begin to give way to a healthier middle ground.