Quotes About Aggression

#1. A nations path to greatness lies in its economic prowess and that militarism, empire, and aggression lead to a dead end.

Fareed Zakaria

#2. I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Christina Aguilera

#3. No one wants their stuff stolen. No one wants their physical person harmed. If you understand the implications of those two truths, you can come to see the egregious moral and practical problems of a state-managed society.

Jeffrey Tucker

#4. In the past, Japan through its colonial rule and aggression caused tremendous damage and suffering for the people of many countries, particularly those of Asian nations.

Junichiro Koizumi

#5. My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

Curtis LeMay

#6. Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#7. To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido

Morihei Ueshiba

#8. Collecting anything requires a singularity of focus, but 78 collecting demands an almost-inhuman level of concentration. There is a violence to the search, a dysfunctional aggression that vacillates between repellent and endearingly quirky. It's intimidating to outsiders, and it feeds on sacrifice.

Amanda Petrusich

#9. I thought it was important to speak about what I believe would be the right response to Russian aggression in Ukraine. I'm pleased to hear there is more sanctions maybe coming tomorrow. But the truth of the matter is I think we need less talk and more deeds.

Mike Pence

#10. Historically, it appears that society has capitalized on what is at most a degree of difference between the sexes in order to institutionalize the polarization of aggression.

Freda Adler

#11. Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist.

Stephan Kinsella

#12. Everywhere, people are beginning to question masculine notions of control, aggression and black-and-white thinking - and instead are favoring more empathetic, nurturing and collaborative approaches.

John Gerzema

#13. History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.

Ronald Reagan

#14. I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it.

Mark David Chapman

#15. The malaise and military decline of the post-Vietnam years under President Jimmy Carter set the stage for Russian aggression abroad and uncertainty among our allies.

Paul Cook

#16. The regular I both feared and salivated to see was names Reyes Farrow. Where others exuded aggression, deception, and insecurity, he literally dripped confidence, sex, and power. Mostly sex.

Darynda Jones

#17. I've said this a lot - I'm afraid to have girls! I've worked with kids before, and I just relate to boys better. I like their competitiveness and aggression: that's more my style. I'm still dead set on doing whatever I can to make sure I only have boys!

Derek Theler

#18. Every emotion that is in the human mind is there for a positive reason, and they must be used for positive reasons, anger is a positive emotion if it used correctly, so is aggression. God did not put anger and aggression in you just for negative purposes alone.

Amos Wilson

#19. The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

Tony Blair

#20. If I'm not mistaken, Sigmund Freud said that in every idealisation there's an aggression. Depicting the Pope as a sort of Superman, a star, is offensive to me. The pope is a man who laughs, cries, sleeps calmly and has friends like everyone else. A normal person.

Pope Francis

#21. Any aggressive lust lacks balance and is unwholesome and obstructive.

Bryant McGill

#22. This is something I'd heard him say before: getting angry at another driver for a driving incident is pointless. You need to watch the drivers around you, understand their skill, confidence, and aggression levels, and drive with them accordingly.

Garth Stein

#23. I'll be the first to admit it - after the first episode, I wasn't sold on Peter Capaldi as the new Doctor of 'Doctor Who,' with the bewildered Clara following behind like a lost puppy, haphazardly flinging aggression around like cream pies in a 'Three Stooges' marathon.

Rob Manuel

#24. But all history has taught us the grim lesson that no nation has ever been successful in avoiding the terrors of war by refusing to defend its rights - by attempting to placate aggression.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#25. Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become ... a far greater aggressor.

John Hospers

#26. Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

James F. Byrnes

#27. Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."

Paulo Coelho

#28. My work comes from the experience of crowds, injustice, and aggression ... I feel an affinity for art when it was made a form of existence, like when shamans worked in the territory between men and unknown powers ... I try to bewitch the crowd.

Magdalena Abakanowicz

#29. Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

Barbara Olson

#30. The tools of aggression we have do not work as well in bloated, multi-way pots.

Ed Miller

#31. We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.

Barack Obama

#32. Where freedom is menaced or justice threatened or where aggression takes place, we cannot be and shall not be neutral.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#33. The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

Miranda Otto

#34. The purge is made to release the aggression, anger, rage everything just in on place.

Deyth Banger

#35. What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher ... Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.

Louise J. Kaplan

#36. Justice requires that you should not place the burdens of one man on the shoulders of another man, even though he is better able to bear them. In plainer words, that you should not make one set of men pay for what is used by another set of men.

Auberon Herbert

#37. Direct aggression against Cuba would mean nuclear war. The Americans speak about such aggression as if they did not know or did not want to accept this fact. I have no doubt they would lose such a war.

Che Guevara

#38. His hands still held the windbreaker, his knuckles resting lightly on my breasts. An act of intimate possession more than of sexual aggression.

Janet Evanovich

#39. Foreign policy often involved nothing more than the decision whom to make war upon.

Peter Heather

#40. In your conceit and aggression, you wage wars and slay one another over the lines you have imagined on the world's face.

Robin Hobb

#41. When you pray, move your feet." Prayer without action, like optimism without engagement, is passive aggression toward the future. Even

Al Gore

#42. It is impossible for us to make any real advance until we take to heart this great truth, that without freedom of choice, without freedom of action, there are not such things as true moral qualities; there can only be submissive wearing of the cords that others have tied round our hands.

Auberon Herbert

#43. When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#44. The crucial disadvantage of aggression, competitiveness and skepticism as national characteristics is that these qualities cannot be turned off at five o'clock.

Margaret Halsey

#45. George W. Bush presided over an international network of torture chambers and, with the help of a compliant Congress and press, launched a war of aggression that killed hundreds of thousands of men, women and children.

Jodie Evans

#46. When you're younger, you have a lot more aggression.

Chino Moreno

#47. 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 Kapuscinski

#48. Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression.

Criss Jami

#49. Aggression, occupation and a repetition of the Holocaust won't bring peace. What we want is a sustainable peace. This means that we have to tackle the root of the problem. I am pleased to note that you are honest people and admit that you are obliged to support the Zionists.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#50. The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate.

Eminem

#51. Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.

Antonio Tabucchi

#52. The entire Nazi war machine was only possible because of past, present and future violations of the non aggression principle (achievable only through government).

Stefan Molyneux

#53. Germany has concluded a Non-Aggression Pact with Poland. We shall adhere to it unconditionally. We recognize Poland as the home of a great and nationally conscious people.

Adolf Hitler

#54. Aggression, rage and violence are archetypal foundations of manhood.

Abhijit Naskar

#55. Aggressive female icons have been chronically demeaned ... It's fine for male artists to be angry - they're encouraged to outwardly express their aggression - but women? I've been painted as an aggressive Feminazi because I'm blunt, stubborn, independent, forthright.

Lydia Lunch

#56. The PPA had a lot of predator-type shifters. Their natural aggression and hardiness made them excellent operatives few wanted to take on in a fight.

Mina Carter

#57. Obviously, untangling sex from aggression and violence or the threat of it is going to take a very long time. And the process is going to be greatly resisted as a challenge to the very heart of male dominance and male centrality.

Gloria Steinem

#58. This is passive-aggression in action.

Chuck Palahniuk

#59. Quoting an experienced school counselor: "You can't change a bully into a flower child, but you can change him into a knight.

Leonard Sax

#60. My clients train hard. They don't scream or throw weights - they just push hard, trying to get more out of themselves than their bodies want to give, trying to walk that terrible, beautiful line between controlled aggression and all-out insanity.

John Romaniello

#61. As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.

Chris Milk

#62. Showing aggression is the simplest way to assert patriarchal manhood. Men of all classes know this. As a consequence, all men living in a culture of violence must demonstrate at some point in their lives that they are capable of being violent.

Bell Hooks

#63. Well, there are those who would say it's a form of aggression."
"What is?"
"A surprise.

David Mamet

#64. The world should commit Israel to withdraw from our territories and stop occupation and aggression, and allow the Palestinian people to establish their independent state.

Khaled Mashal

#65. All I'm saying is that it's shortsighted to blame TV. It's simply another symptom. TV didn't invent our aesthetic childishness here any more than the Manhattan Project invented aggression.

David Foster Wallace

#66. If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

Bob Dole

#67. In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

Philip Schuyler

#68. I heard someone say that concern over the [Confederate] Flag is sensitivity to micro-aggressions, to which my response is to say that kidnapping and enslaving people, breaking up families, terrorizing families, if that's not a macro-aggression, I don't know what is.

Russell D. Moore

#69. All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent.

Ingrid Newkirk

#70. But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

Benjamin Tucker

#71. That overachieving, ambitious, nobody-can-hold-me-down attitude I had, which came from a place of anger and aggression, has transformed into feeling like I will take on the world, but I will do it with an embrace, rather than with my dukes up.

Christina Aguilera

#72. There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

Catherine Taylor

#73. I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.

Alexei Navalny

#74. No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.

Thomas Jefferson

#75. When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Herman Melville

#76. At the time when talk of war, intimidation, and aggression is exchanged between politicians, the name of their country, Iran, is spoken here through her glorious culture, a rich and ancient culture that has been hidden under the heavy dust of politics.

Asghar Farhadi

#77. Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind

Roy Keane

#78. Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

Marshall McLuhan

#79. We are inhibited from aggression by the presence of another face, another person. We're aware that we're with a human being. On the Internet, we are disinhibited from taking into full account that we are in the presence of another human being.

Sherry Turkle

#80. Everyone thinks if you fix a male dog it will lower his aggression, but most of the biters are female. It's basic instinct to protect their own womb. You see it in all animals - the female of the species is more deadly than the male." "Except

Mindy McGinnis

#81. What's the biggest commercial for aggression, sexuality and materialism? What gets pumped into these kids' heads? Taking someone else's girl, which is so laissez-faire in hip-hop, will get you killed in the streets, but it doesn't seem to be an issue when you hear it on the radio.

Lupe Fiasco

#82. It's important to note that aggression isn't the problem. It's the outcome of a problem.

Cesar Millan

#83. Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

Margaret J. Wheatley

#84. Men may or may not be better drivers than women, but they seem to die more often trying to prove that they are.

Tom Vanderbilt

#85. Rage can easily convert to hatred. There is a wish to control the bad object in order to avoid persecution or fear. This control is achieved by the development of obsessive control mechanisms, which psychopathologically regulate the repression of aggression in such an individual.

Sam Vaknin

#86. In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love.

Bell Hooks

#87. Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.

Chogyam Trungpa

#88. I grew up as a boy with aggression.

Don McCullin

#89. There's an Oriental saying I like: If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

Matthew Reilly

#90. Although there exist in the world today some microbes of the soul, such as discrimination and aggression, science was and still is the core of progress for humanity and the continuity of civilization.

Ahmed Zewail

#91. History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

Ronald Reagan

#92. We celebrate peace. Yet we pay no attention to the ways of curing aggression in human beings. And when one sees in psychoanalysis hostility disappearing as people conquer their fears, one wonders if the cure is not there.

Anais Nin

#93. It's very easy, if you come from a place like Pakistan, to imagine that there's a narrative of American aggression towards the place that you come from. But that, in itself, is just a political view.

Mohsin Hamid

#94. I feel like we need more aggression today.

Ludacris

#95. Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

Herbert Spencer

#96. The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If ants had nuclear weapons, they would probably end the world in a week.

Bert Holldobler

#97. It's post-traumatic stress disorder. When these women go ballistic and shoot their husbands or slice off their dicks, they aren't thinking about the consequences . . . just about stopping the aggression.

Jodi Picoult

#98. Such widespread phenomena as depression, aggression and addiction are not understandable unless we recognize the existential vacuum underlying them.

Viktor E. Frankl

#99. Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Godfrey Reggio

#100. The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge.

Noam Chomsky