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Quotes About Aggression

Why are men ever at war? For power and greed and to enforce their own views on others.
~ Jane Johnson
All warfare that is not defensive is criminal.
~ Jane Porter
The ultimate rape is murder. Sometime during the rape, they cosider killing the victim.
~ Janet Bode
Rape is a crime of violence and sex is the weapon.
~ Janet Bode
The man who has God's mind doesn't have to fight and struggle and push and be brash and make his own demands all the time. He knows when to lay back and take in God's rest, and when to be aggressive and take the kingdom by force. So
~ Janny Grein
The aviation pioneer Charles Lindbergh argued in popular radio speeches that it would be foolish and hypocritical to fight Germany. He said America had no standing to accuse the Nazis of aggression and barbarism because America had sometimes been aggressive and barbaric itself. Later he argued that American Jews were a "danger to this country" on account of their "ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
~ Jason Fagone
Companies that live in such a zero-sum world don't "earn market share" from a competitor, they "conquer the market." They don't just serve their customers, they "capture" them. They "target" customers, employ a sales "force," hire "headhunters" to find new talent, pick their "battles," and make a "killing.
~ Jason Fried
as corrie was about to hang up, stacy said, i hope he shoots at my car. i've got a couple of black talon rounds just itching to explore his inner psyche.
~ Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child
The third possible explanation for the sex difference in actual homicides is linked to a surprising motive for much violent behavior: the tendency to act aggressively to impress others.
~ Douglas T. Kenrick
Yeah, how dare they try to kill you in the middle of a war? Don't they know you're busy trying to kill them? How rude!
~ Drew Karpyshyn
Sometimes we must be very aggressive in our dealings with the enemy. Gordon Lindsay used to say every Christian should pray at least one violent prayer every day.
~ Dutch Sheets
History teaches that, when powerful despots can gain something through aggression, they try, by the same methods, to gain more and more and more.
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
So the world is again faced with the problem of armed aggression. Powerful dictatorships are attacking an exposed, but free, area. What should we do? Shall we take the position that, submitting to threat, it is better to surrender pieces of free territory in the hope that this will satisfy the appetite of the aggressor and we shall have peace?
~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
Inner resistance to whatever arises in the present moment pulls you back into unconsciousness. Inner resistance is some form of negativity, complaining, fear, aggression, or anger. This is important because whenever you complain about what somebody else does you're already beginning to fall into that trap of unconsciousness.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression. Are you defending the truth? No, the truth, in any case, needs no defense. The light or sound does not care about what you or anybody else thinks. You are defending yourself, or rather the illusion of yourself, the mind-made substitute.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The greater part of violence that humans have inflicted on each other is not the work of criminals or the mentally deranged, but of normal, respectable citizens in the service of the collective ego.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Violence is a primitive but still very widespread way in which the ego attempts to assert itself, to prove itself right and another wrong.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression.
~ Eckhart Tolle
Ego takes everything personally. Emotion arises, defensiveness, perhaps even aggression. Are you defending the truth? No, the truth, in any case, needs no defense.
~ Eckhart Tolle
The tools of aggression we have do not work as well in bloated, multi-way pots.
~ Ed Miller
Kho closed and sought my jugular with his teeth. He seemed to forget the hatchet dangling by
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
He was a mighty beast, mightily muscled, and the urge that has made males fight since the dawn of life on earth filled him with the blood-lust and the thirst to slay;
~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
there was no foreign war, because this prince was always ready for war.
~ Edmund Burke
more and more ferocious to devour the South.
~ Edmund Wilson