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Quotes About Aggression

Wars and alarums unto nations wide.
~ Edmund Spenser
The wars fought by human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of a sea slug.
~ Edmund Wilson
A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
~ Edna Ferber
What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.
~ Edward Abbey
What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie.
~ Edward Abbey
Well, hell, use a ball bat. And strike first, from behind. Don't give him a chance to take it away from you. You don't want a fight, you want revenge." He grinned a little. "When you just want a fight you can always go home to your wife.
~ Edward Abbey
Omnivorous red devils with a vicious bite, they have denuded the ground surrounding their hill, destroying everything green and living within a radius of ten feet. I cannot resist the impulse to shove my walking stick into the bowels of their hive and rowel things up. Don't actually care for ants. Neurotic little pismires. Compared to ants the hairy scorpion is a beast of charm, dignity and
~ Edward Abbey
Above all, the Gy-ei have a readier and more concentred power over that mysterious fluid or agency which contains the element of destruction, with a larger portion of that sagacity which comprehends dissimulation. Thus they cannot only defend themselves against all aggressions from the males, but could, at any moment when he least expected his danger, terminate the existence of an offending spouse.
~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton
High sticking, tripping, slashing, spearing, charging, hooking, fighting, unsportsmanlike conduct, interference, roughing... everything else is just figure skating.
~ Anonymous
Every man's sword was against his fellow.
~ Anonymous
Every man's sword shall be against his brother.
~ Anonymous
I am for peace: but when I speak, they are for war.
~ Anonymous
And when they are in their cups, they forget their love both to friends and brethren, and a little after draw out swords.
~ Anonymous
Concerning football playing, I protest to you it may rather be called a friendly kind of fighting, rather than recreation.
~ Anonymous
I said, smiling very wide and droogie: 'Well, if it isn't fat stinking billygoat Billyboy in poison. How art thou, thou globby bottle of cheap stinking chip-oil? Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbles, you eunuch jelly, thou.' And then we started.
~ Anthony Burgess
We are a volley of bullets, we are cannonballs.
~ Anthony Doerr
Funny how to celebrate peace we seem to want to simulate war.
~ Anthony Doerr
Warships had brass battering rams on their prows, and the usual tactic was to ram the side of an enemy ship.
~ Anthony Everitt
Antony was furious and responded with threats.
~ Anthony Everitt
A cultural ecology of violence!
~ Anthony J. Marsella
If the North Korean Communists provoke another war, we must immediately deter it and give them a decisive counterattack at the initial place of aggression.
~ Park Chung-hee
I love those sorts of stories where you actually see the consequences of what violence does physically to people as well as psychologically.
~ John Hillcoat
There's a lot psychologically going on in boxing... I think I relate to some of it. I have a respect for it. It's like performing, but it's also this crazy, self-destructive thing.
~ Julia Holter
I'm not saying I'm Mr Goody Two Shoes. I'm not. But if you try to rough me up, I'm going to body-slam you. I'm going to do everything I have to do psychologically to tell you that you are not stronger than me.
~ Naseem Hamed