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Quotes About Aggression

Get off my planet, you son of a bitch.
~ John Scalzi
All war is a symptom of man's failure as a thinking animal.
~ John Steinbeck
I think permitting the game to become too physical takes away a little bit of the beauty.
~ John Wooden
When she fired, he stopped, looking round wildly. He had no cover to drop to. She fired again…
~ John Wyndham
René Girard proposes that rituals of sacrifice are a necessary counter to endemic aggression and violence in society.
~ John Zerzan
His cock came out, and she blinked. "That? You're going to rape me with that?
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
Oh, nonsense," snapped Ellery, honking his klaxon. His face convulsed as he leaned out of the car and yelled to a crowding taxicab with the righteous wrath of all motor-maniacs: "What the hell d'ye think you're doing?
~ Ellery Queen
The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.
~ Emil Cioran
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
~ Emil Cioran
Agression is a trait common to men and new gods.
~ Emil Cioran
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall? To publish one's taints in order to amuse or exasperate!
~ Emil M. Cioran
the only way to prove you are normal is to smash someone's face in
~ Emile Ajar
People who get up early in the morning cause war, death and famine.
~ Banksy
Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.
~ Barbara Delinsky
America is addicted to wars of distraction.
~ Barbara Ehrenreich
To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
These private wars were fought by the knights with furious gusto and a single strategy, which consisted in trying to ruin the enemy by killing or maiming as many of his peasants and destroying as many crops, vineyards, tools, barns, and other possessions as possible, thereby reducing his sources of revenue. As a result, the chief victim of the belligerents was their respective peasantry.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
We must put aside all commonplaces as to the responsibility of the aggressor.… Success alone justifies war.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
The private wars were the curse of Europe which the crusades, it has been thought, were subconsciously invented to relieve by providing a vent for aggression.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Two hundred years of human aggression, greed and the madness of power reveal a record that blots the rejoicing of that happy night in Philadelphia, and reminds us how slow is the pace of "melioration" and how mediocre is the best we have made of what Washington and Greene and Morgan and their half-clad soldiers "without the shadow of a blanket" fought through bitter winters to achieve.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Another thing to avoid at all times — before, during and after this fear phase — is pulling back on your dog's leash when meeting friendly dogs or people. This common puppy-owner mistake will actually increase a puppy's fear or make him aggressive. He needs your upbeat voice telling him all's well in his world.
~ Bardi McLennan
Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.
~ Barry B. Longyear
I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
~ Barry Goldwater
Violence suits you.
~ Barry Lyga