Quotes About Aggression

The clash was unsatisfactory to everybody. Therefore, the pragmatist claimed, we must reach a livable compromise. This approach puts the pragmatist on the side of the aggressor, though they don't advocate aggression. As a criticism of pragmatism, you can say that it is totally amoral, and every amoral system is on the side of the immoral. But the pragmatist is impersonal about force. Someone wants to bash your skull in, reach a livable compromise: tell him to break one leg. [NFW 69]

he ripped out Eldred's throat in one fell bat swoop, and

Tiny fists can hurt quite a lot when they hit you in the face.

The world was full of weapons, when you cared to look.

Football is violence and cold weather and college rye.

We fought.' 'A duel?' 'Nothing that formal. A simultaneous decision to murder one another is more like it.

Comme jaloux, je souffre quatre fois : parce que je suis jaloux, parce que je me reproche de l'être, parce que je crains que ma jalousie ne blesse l'autre, parce que je me laisse assujettir à une banalité : je souffre d'être exclu, d'être agressif, d'être fou et d'être commun.

Mills lashed out at Barbot as "an impertinent puppy"—the sort of fighting words that prompted duels.

In yet another political fracas, Coleman received a caning that left him paralyzed from the waist down.

When they didn't flinch, Rockefeller launched an all-out attack.

One thing was clear to the ministers and civil servants who framed these policies: Britain's colonies and the new transatlantic commerce they were generating were a vital national asset to be coveted, protected and extended, if necessary by aggression.

Some Islamic scholars explain these injunctions by saying that they apply only when war is initiated by the infidels, or when Muslims are persecuted, or when Islam itself is threatened. The Quran, these thinkers point out, also bids the Muslims to "fight in the way of God against those who fight against you, and be not aggressive; surely God loves not the aggressors

An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight.

if you can't acquaint an opponent with reason, you must acquaint his head with the sidewalk.

War isn't about dying for your country. It's about making the enemy die for his." Gen. George S. Patton

Street-fighting's first rule: there are no rules.

That kid was every kind of bully. He had a grudge against anyone with one brain cell more. Which was a lot

No one expects a head butt. Humans don't hit things with their heads. Some inbuilt atavistic instinct says so. A head butt changes the game. It adds a kind of unhinged savagery to the mix. An unprovoked head butt is like bringing a sawed-off shotgun to a knife fight. The guy went down like an empty suit.

then to turn and kick the back seat guy, in the head, and the front seat guy, the same, to keep them out of action on the ground, and

I'm going to twist his arm out of his shoulder socket and beat him to death with his own right hand.

It's what we say in the army when we're going to beat someone to death.

Without breaking stride Reacher head-butted him full in the face. Left, right, bang. A perfect ten, for style and content, and power and precision.

Which all might have worked, if Reacher had stayed down a step. But he didn't. They charged and he stepped back up to where he was before, and he kicked the nearest guy in the face. And then he twisted and hit the left-hand guy with his elbow, and twisted again and hit the right-hand guy with the same elbow coming back. Gravity and New Hampshire granite finished the job.

Then Chang fired. Full auto. Nine hundred rounds a minute. Impossibly fast. A brief blur of sound, like a manic sewing machine. Two seconds. A whole mag. Dirt stitched up in a line and a splinter of wood blew off the building.