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Quotes About Aggression

War is a perversion of sex.
~ Alan Moore
Who did it? Tell me who did it, you slime! Who murdered Hollis? You tell them! You tell them they're dead! You know how much firepower I have floating out there? I oughtta take out this entire rat-hole neighborhood! I oughtta. . . oughtta break your neck, you. . . you. . . Oh god damn. God damn. God damn. God damn!
~ Alan Moore
By deafening ourselves to the emotional consequences of violence we have become confused by its relationship to sex. We have come to believe that violence equals aggression, and we have come to base our model of sexuality on our model of violence... converting an act of aggression into an act of consensual sexuality.
~ Derrick Jensen
In little more than a single century from 1820 to 19450, no less than fifty-nine million human animals were killed in inter-group clashes of one sort or another.... We describe these killings as men behaving "like animals," but if we could find a wild animal that showed signs of acting this way, it would be more precise to describe it as behaving like men.
~ Desmond Morris
Ultimately, all wars can be traced to the simplest of quarrels where man is eager to overpower rather than indulge the other.
~ Devdutt Pattanaik
Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
~ Dirk Kempthorne
I might have known better, nothing is what everybody wants, the world runs on that law. Personally, if I could, I would instigate Meat-Axe Day, and out of the goodness of my heart I would whack your head off with a couple of others. Every man should be allowed one day and a hatchet just to ease his heart.
~ Djuna Barnes
Za ubijanje moraju se imati neke ideje. Te krupne, banalne, svim ljudima iste re?i. Bez takvih izgovora mi smo i sebi samo obi?ne ubice. Mora se imati ratni cilj, mora se pristati na ratnu obmanu.
~ Dobrica ?osi?
People who are powerless make an open theater of violence.
~ Don DeLillo
The most aggressive artists often hide their romantic side.
~ Don Johnson
Violence is the way of the world because competition is the way of life-perpetuation. Without violence there can be no competition, and without competition there can be no life. Something dies for every instant that something else lives.
~ Don Pendleton
This violent state of mind. This violent state of mine.
~ Don Winslow
There's a hollowness to civilized life. It doesn't appeal to people, and some people react with extreme violence.
~ John Zerzan
A door slammed next door. The serial killer looked up and over as a flurry of white fur pounded against the other side of the fence. "Don't start with me, you little runt, or you'll be next.
~ Jennifer Skully
Something in her past that makes her want to tear things to shreds.
~ Jenny Offill
If it is hot enough to barbecue," a patient of mine once told me as I sutured the knife wounds on his chest, "it's hot enough to stab someone.
~ Jeremy Brown
I love eating chicken with my bare hands. It makes me want to snarl at people, even more than usual.
~ Jeri Smith-Ready
It is so easy for humans to be cruel, and they leap to it. They love to do it. It is an exercise of all their laughable powers
~ Jesse Ball
Wrestling is ballet with violence.
~ Jesse Ventura
When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.
~ Jessica Valenti
Today the aggressor is the shepherd of peace, and the beaten and hunted are the troublemakers of the world. What's more, there are whole races who believe it!
~ Erich Maria Remarque
Tjaden comes back. He is still worked up and joins in the debate again straight away by asking how a war starts in the first place. 'Usually when one country insults another one badly,' answers Kropp, a little patronizingly. But Tjaden isn't going to be put off. 'A country? I don't get it. A German mountain can't insult a French mountain, or a river, or a forest, or a cornfield.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The head-master with the steel watch-chain wants to have at least the whole of Belgium, the coal-areas of France, and a slice of Russia.
~ Erich Maria Remarque
The essence of war is violence," he wrote, "and moderation in war is imbecility.
~ Erik Larson