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Quotes About Aggression

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
~ Yitzhak Rabin
Begun this Clone War has.
~ Yoda
Of all human collective activities, the one most difficult to organise is violence.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
Russia has been following the schoolyard-bully principle: pick on the weakest kid, and don't beat him up too much, lest the teacher intervene.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
The process of taming almost always involves the castration of males. This restrains male aggression and enables humans selectively to control the herd's procreation.
~ Yuval Noah Harari
A nation's path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and ... militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.
~ zakaria fareed
If one must fight one should confine oneself to conventional weapons.
~ zedong mao
Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.
~ zedong mao
With the indiscriminate nature of modern military technology (no such thing as a "smart bomb," it turns out) all wars are wars against civilians, and are therefore inherently immoral. This is true even when a war is considered "just," because it is fought against a tyrant, against an aggressor, to correct a stolen boundary.
~ zinn howard iii
What happened in World War II was what happened in war generally, and that was whatever the initiating cause, and however clear the moral reason is for the war in which one side looks better than the other, by the time the war ends both sides have been engaged in evil.
~ zinn howard iv
Meet Curly and Mo," I said. "I want you to divide into two groups and form an orderly queue to give these two a bit of stick. Basically, do what you like to them. Punch them, kick them, knee them in the knackers. Pretend they're your boss, your spouse, or whoever's been giving you grief lately.
~ Zoë Sharp
I now think a little powder and lead is the best food for them," he concluded. 7
~ Dee Brown
From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step.
~ Denis Diderot
She was going to kill him. As soon as this was over. As soon as the crowd left. She would tighten that bolo tie until his face went tomato red. No. She would hold him under the falls until he begged for mercy.
~ Denise Hunter
She wanted to smack the cocksure grin right off his face.
~ Denise Hunter
I drank his blood, piss, vomit. I shoved one hand down his throat, one hand up his ass and shook hands with myself in the middle of his body, which sounds funny, but it wasn't.
~ Dennis Cooper
I threatened to gouge one of his eyes out." Cathy
~ Dennis Kelly
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.
~ Dennis Kucinich
We are living in the era of the violent do-gooder.
~ Dennis Miller
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.
~ Dennis Prager
Boyd-Franklin (2003, 2010) describes teaching Black children, especially males, (a) to express aggression indirectly in the face of insults and indignities, (b) to create as few waves as possible by engaging in ritualized accommodating/subordinating behaviors, and (c) to read the thoughts of others while hiding their own.
~ Derald Wing Sue
You be sure to throw the book at him, you hear me? I feel violated, Detective. Violated." "I'll throw this table at you if you don't give us the names we're looking for.
~ Derek Landy
I don't want a perfectly safe weapon. I want a dangerous weapon that hurts people." He took the stick from her, rapped it against her head. She howled and he nodded. "See? It hurts people.
~ Derek Landy
With the speed of a cobra, Scapegrace lashed out at Bagatelle, catching him on the ear with a vicious chop. He ducked as Shun reached for him, and spun with a kick that came dangerously close to landing. Mud fired off a punch that Scapegrace blocked with his chin, and Scapegrace countered with a flailing hand to the air as he fell.
~ Derek Landy