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Quotes About Aggression

From the horrible weapon which they were about to urge the United States to develop, Szilard, Teller and Wigner—"the Hungarian conspiracy," Merle Tuve was amused to call them—hoped for more than deterrence against German aggression.1194 They also hoped for world government and world peace, conditions they imagined bombs made of uranium might enforce.
~ Richard Rhodes
Not testosterone per se but the patriarchal preference for subjecting males to violentization, and their physical advantage in achieving early successful violent performances, explains why men are much more likely than women to be seriously violent.
~ Richard Rhodes
he was still belligerent, angry, stupid, always ready and even anxious to take a poke at somebody, anybody. It was as if he generated inside himself the poison which kept him continually irritated and angry and sick, like a snake that insists on biting itself.
~ Richard S. Prather
An ugly blue- steeled Mauser leaped into his hand as his finger curled hungrily around its trigger.
~ Richard Sale
And when demigods use cell phones, the signals agitate every monster within a hundred miles. It's like sending up a flare: Here I am! Please rearrange my face!
~ Rick Riordan
Nico jumped into the crowd, kicking groins, smacking faces with the flat of his blade, bashing helmets with his pommel. In ten seconds, the Romans all lay groaning and dazed on the ground.
~ Rick Riordan
Die,human! Die, silly polluting nasty person!
~ Rick Riordan
You get angry, you punch someone in the face. Simple. Direct. Bloody. Fun!
~ Rick Riordan
It was Daphne Wood who had taught him the value of getting in there with one swift, mean blow rather than prancing around with a duelist's finesse.
~ Kate Atkinson
Men and boys always want to go fight. They are always looking for a reason to go to war. It is the saddest thing. They have this abiding notion that war is fun. And no history lesson will convince them differently.
~ Kate DiCamillo
She had nothing against any of the other guests, but once she started she saw no way to stop. There was nothing to do but turn the hose against every arriving guest. No one coming out of the house to reason with her was safe either.
~ Katherine Paterson
They call you Jatt? They call you Jutt? I'm gonna toss you in a rut! Then I'm gonna punch you in the gut!
~ Kathryn Lasky
They fought as though the most important thing was to damage each other as much as possible.
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
I'd never before seen anything that gave, all at once, so many signals of anger and the wish to destroy. Its
~ Kazuo Ishiguro
He lunged again. This time I stood my ground and he checked his leap at the last second....and toppled sideways. I didn't hide my laugh that time. His face twisted fast, grabbed my pajama leg and wrenched, and down I went. Bully
~ Kelley Armstrong
The rottweiler stood his ground and waited for me to take the next step in the dance of ritualized intimidation. Instead, I leaped at him. Screw ritual. Now was not the time to stand on ceremony.
~ Kelley Armstrong
I backed off Nicole fast. They hit her with a needle, but she wouldn't stop trying to get me and they had to haul her out. You b*tch! she shrieked back at me. You think what I did to Serena was bad? Just wait until I get ahold of you. They dragged her away, still spewing threats.
~ Kelley Armstrong
In every country, those who were against war had been overruled. The Austrians had attacked Serbia when they might have held back; the Russians had mobilized instead of negotiating; the Germans had refused to attend an international conference to settle the issue; the French had been offered the chance to remain neutral and had spurned it; and now the British were about to join in when they might easily have remained on the sidelines.
~ Ken Follett
As in every country, Walter thought gloomily, army officers were pressing their political masters to take the first steps to war. It
~ Ken Follett
International politics is like a glass. Aggressive moves by either side pour water in. The overflow is war." Dimka
~ Ken Follett
El artículo 231 del tratado decía: «Los gobiernos aliados y asociados afirman, y Alemania acepta, que Alemania y sus aliados son responsables de haber causado todas las pérdidas y los daños a los que se han visto sujetos los gobiernos aliados y asociados, así como sus ciudadanos, como consecuencia de la guerra que les fue impuesta por la agresión de Alemania y sus aliados».
~ Ken Follett
I identified four inherited traits that lead to criminal behaviour: impulsiveness, fearlessness, aggression and hyperactivity. But my big theory is that certain ways of raising children counteract those traits and turn potential criminals into good citizens.
~ Ken Follett
International politics is like a glass. Aggressive moves by either side pour water in. The overflow is war.
~ Ken Follett
And the weakness of our policy is that every time we impose economic sanctions, to punish the Japanese for their aggression, it only reinforces their feeling that they've got to be self-sufficient.
~ Ken Follett