Quotes About Aggression

One historian who went through fifty years of police reports about knife-fights in nineteenth-century Ionia discovered that virtually every one of them began when one party publicly suggested that the other's wife or sister was a whore.

While ruthlessly aggressive toward other species, they are also unusually cooperative with their own kind. Ants from neighboring nests don't fight, as with other species,

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People always make war when they say they love peace.

Loud peace propaganda makes war seem imminent.

Proximity, I have learned, is often as effective as violence.

Mark a hen's comb with an oddly colored spot, or tie it so it hangs in a peculiar direction, and her former flock mates will attack her mercilessly. Jane Goodall, who was the first scientist to observe chimpanzees up close and personal in the wild, noticed that crippled chimpanzees were rejected and attacked by apes that were previously on friendly terms with them.

Like it or not, war is distinctively human. Apart from the raiding behavior of chimpanzees and the so-called wars prosecuted by certain species of ant, there is nothing in nature that comes anywhere near approximating it.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

By God, we will make the fire eat up half of Isreal if it tries to do anything against Iraq.

Against spin, my god, he is really a murderer

Last night the United States dropped four 2,000 pound bombs on Saddam Hussein. I don't know anything about explosives, but, my God, do those things even need to explode?

We're all endowed with God-given talents. Mine happens to be hitting people in the head.

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you. God I hate that stuff.

The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

We would have never gotten mace had someone not thought, There must be a good way to burn someone's eyes.

Violence is what people do when they run out of good ideas.

Batistuta is very good at pulling off defenders

War is just one more big government program.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

The purpose of war is to support your government's decisions by force.

People don't start wars, governments do.

Happiness lies in conquering one's enemies, in driving them in front of oneself, in taking their property, in savoring their despair, in outraging their wives and daughters.