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Quotes About Aggression

If there was a National Tweaker Olympics, Oregon would bring home the gold in every category (Living in Squalor, Poisoning Your Neighbors, Developing Facial Scabs, Public Aggression, Theft of Useless Things, Taking Stuff Apart, and Crazy Talking).
~ Laurie Notaro
How sad now never to see men holding hands, while everywhere one looks they are holding guns.
~ Alice Walker
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting.
~ Vera Rubin
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.
~ Desmond Morris
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
~ Robert Ardrey, African Genesis
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
~ Konrad Lorenz, On Aggression
In anger, my hostility is directed toward another's action and can be extinguished by getting even - an action that reestablishes the equilibrium.
~ Jon Elster
Modern Humans have at least dealt out death fairly: We began our existence by killing each other.
~ Mark Lynas, The God Species
I sort of liked the sound of bones breaking. It was like home.
~ Amy Tintera, Rebel
A smile can get you far, but a smile with a gun can get you further.
~ Al Capone
I will kick you in the nuts and you will smile and like it.
~ CM Punk
Aggressivität und Ablehnung kommen wie die anderen harten, rauen und bitteren Stammespraktiken in der Maske des Schutzgewährens und Abschirmens der "Gemeinschaft" daher.
~ Zygmunt Bauman
you can have no conflict, without being yourselves the aggressors
~ Abraham Lincoln
We'd rip out the hedges and burn the hooches and blow all the wells and kill every chicken, pig and cow in the whole fucking ville. I mean, if we can't shoot these people, what the fuck are we doing here?
~ Adam Hochschild
He had all the bushes and trees cut down around his house at Bokatola so that from his porch he could use passersby for target practice. If
~ Adam Hochschild
Michael Herr, the most brilliant reporter of the Vietnam War, captures the same frenzy in the voice of one American soldier he met: "We'd rip out the hedges and burn the hooches and blow all the wells and kill every chicken, pig and cow in the whole fucking ville. I mean, if we can't shoot these people, what the fuck are we doing here?" When
~ Adam Hochschild
I am making this statement as an act of willful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, upon which I entered as a War of defence, has now become a War of aggression and conquest. The letter writer, Second Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, had just published a much-praised book of war poems.
~ Adam Hochschild
every shell fired at the Boers, Lloyd George thundered, carried away with it an old-age pension.
~ Adam Hochschild
You kick a dog long enough, and eventually it will bite.
~ Adriana Trigiani
I will speak in defense of reason: for the very child of vanity is violence.
~ Aeschylus
was at once appalled and impressed. Personally, he could not recall having read or heard of an instance where a human economist had resolved a disagreement with a fellow academician by ripping out the other's tendons and ligaments.
~ Alan Dean Foster
Alan Dean Foster
~ You shot first.
In the end it was the documentary evidence, the Germans' own detailed record of their aggression and genocide, that provided the smoking guns. Document after document proved be yond any doubt that the Nazis had conducted two wars: One was their aggressive war against Europe (and eventually America) for military, political, geographic, and economic domination. The other was their genocidal war to destroy "inferior" races, primarily the Jews and Gypsies.
~ Alan M. Dershowitz
You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.
~ Alan Moore