Quotes About Aggression

children could learn new aggressive behaviors as easily from a cartoon-like figure as from a human adult, a result that clearly implicates animated TV shows as an equally unhealthy teacher of aggression.

Aggressive habits seem to be learned early in life, and once established, are resistant to change and predictive of serious adult antisocial behavior.

Those who view greater amounts of violent television and film portrayals of many kinds tend to engage in higher levels of aggressive behavior.

Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform?

You don't win wars by dying for your country you win wars by making the other son of a bitch die for his

For the sentimentalism and emotionalism which have infested our country, we should substitute hard common sense. Pacific habits do not insure peace or immunity from national insult and aggression.

What would you do if your cat suddenly went psycho and started to attack you for no apparent reason, lying in wait and pouncing or stalking you with a faraway look reminiscent of its predatory cousins and ancestors?

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

Football is not a contact sport. It's a collision sport. Dancing is a good example of a contact sport.

Swing hard, in case they throw the ball where you're swinging.

War settles nothing.

If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

Let your attacker worry about his life. Don't hold back. Strike no more after he is incapable of further action, but see that he is stopped.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

The last peace had created the conditions for the next war. Out of want came fear, out of fear came fury.

In 2003, the United States invaded a country that did not threaten us, did not attack us, and did not want war with us, to disarm it of weapons we have since discovered it did not have," wrote Pat Buchanan, placing the blame for the war on the neocons' hijacking of the conservative movement

In twenty-first-century America, many thoughtful persons have witnessed what appears to be a recycling of the events of pre–World War II Germany: the destruction of a prominent national structure; rushed emergency legislation; the rise of a secretive national security apparatus; attempts to register both firearms and people, coupled with preemptive wars of aggression propelled by fervent nationalism

Violence isn't always evil. What's evil is the infatuation with violence.

Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air.

Hockey is murder on ice.

In marriage, for example, feelings of rejection can cause spouses to become hostile and aggressive toward one another.

If it's natural to kill, why do men have to go into training to learn how?

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?