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Quotes About Aggression

When you get into the game you've got be thinking, when I get into the attacking third I'm gonna be freakin' creative.
~ Freddy Adu
I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.
~ Steven Pinker
Every war makes other wars more likely.
~ Rose Macaulay
Prince looked ready to slug me. I almost wished he would. Like most Americans, I was a counter-puncher.
~ Ross MacDonald
What behaviors does your child exhibit when that happens? Some kids cry, or pout, or sulk, or withdraw. While that's the "easy" end of the spectrum, those kids still need our help. Some hold their breath, scream, swear, kick, hit, have panic attacks, or destroy property. Some run away, bite, cut themselves, vomit, use weapons, or worse. This end of the spectrum is much more concerning and dangerous.
~ Ross W. Greene
I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.
~ Roy Clark
There is ample reason to question whether low self-esteem is to blame for violence. Think of the obnoxious, hostile, or bullying people you have known—were they humble, modest, and self-effacing? (That's mainly what low self-esteem is like.) Most of the aggressive people I have known were the opposite: conceited, arrogant, and often consumed with thoughts about how they were superior to everyone else.
~ Roy F. Baumeister
the higher your opinion of yourself, the more likely you are to get ego threats, and hence the more prone to violence you would be.
~ Roy F. Baumeister
Many people mistakenly believe that rape is a sexually motivated act. In fact, a rapist doesn't commit the crime because he is "horny" or because his wife cheated on him, although he may use those factors as excuses. The rapist uses sex as a tool of aggression. The sexual assault is an assertion of power or an expression of anger, or it may be a combination of the two. In any event, sexual assault primarily serves nonsexual needs.
~ Roy Hazelwood
The germ of creation lies in violence.
~ Rudolfo Anaya
Op de volgende statie van deze kruisweg zien wij hoe de eigenaar de kat met geweld door het luikje probeert te duwen. Maar daar zijn katten niet van gediend. Zij laten zich eerst als een harmonica in elkaar duwen, tot ze wel de helft korter zijn dan gewoonlijk, en zetten daarna of al meteen de tegenaanval in. Tenslotte neemt hij met geheven staart de benen en gaat zich op een veilige afstand zitten wassen.
~ Rudy Kousbroek
The female of the species is more deadly than the male.
~ Rudyard Kipling
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
~ Rudyard Kipling
You cannot be politically correct in a war.
~ Rupert Everett
Batteries of machine guns firing point-blank at assaulting troops could turn an infantry attack into a mass suicide.
~ Russell Freedman
The only way to defend anything, Hubbard wrote, was to attack.
~ Russell Miller
Altercations, fights, wars, only begin because something unjust has transpired.
~ Ryan Pack
Hey!" he yelled at the bear. "Hey you dumb stupid bastard! Why don't you come suck on my dick!
~ Ryan Seek
Three plagues, three contagions, threaten the world. The first is the plague of nationalism. The second is the plague of racism. The third is the plague of religious fundamentalism. All three share one trait, a common denominator--an aggressive, all-powerful, total irrationality. Anyone stricken with one of these plagues is beyond reason. In his head burns a sacred pyre that awaits its sacrificial victims.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Two lusts breed in the soul of man: the lust for aggresion, and the lust for telling lies. If one will not allow himself to wrong others, he will wrong himself. If he doesn't come across anyone to lie to, he will lie to himself in his own thoughts.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
Strange, isn't it, that it's always more difficult to talk people out of killing each other than into it?
~ S.M. Stirling
Stress" is mostly the result of not being allowed to kill some asshole you really want to slice and dice.
~ S.M. Stirling
Whoever tries to climb over our fence, we will try to climb over his house.
~ Saddam Hussein
I am not going to kill you. First I'm going to beat on you for a few hours. Then I might move on to the cutting.
~ Marc Guggenheim