Aggression Quotes

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  My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

  Bette Davis

  Work, Passion, Hands

  Bette Davis (1962). “The lonely life: an autobiography”, Putnam's

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• If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed.

  Lal Bahadur Shastri

  Powerful, Thinking, Ideas

  Lal Bahadur Shastri (1967). “Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri commemoration souvenir”

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• Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Moving, One Direction

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• Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Love, Peace, Kings

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.115, Beacon Press

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• Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

  Paul Weller

  Music, Frustration, Guitar

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• To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

  Morihei Ueshiba

  Art, Peace, Aikido

  Morihei Ueshiba, John Stevens (2010). “The Art of Peace”, p.96, Shambhala Publications

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• At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, World, Four

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.

  Robert James Waller

  War, Talking, Long

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• Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Believe, Order, People

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• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Survival, Tools

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

  James Hillman

  Hatred, Black, Patient

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• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Desire, Territory

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

  John Boehner

  Cities, Soldier, Rockets

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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  Hans Kung

  Xenophobia, Hate, Moving

  Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.

  John Driscoll

  Energy, Form, Right Direction

  John Driscoll (2009). “The Sales Warrior Within”, p.187, Wordclay

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• Aggression is simply another name for government.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Names

  Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890.

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• Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Doe, Facts

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• 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

  Funny, Team, People

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• In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Two, Iraq, Use

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• It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Iran, Kuwait, Tyrants

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• 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

  Horny, Age, Would Be

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.

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• There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

  Peter Gay

  Children, Independent, Accomplishment

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• I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

  Jonathan Davis

  Night, World, Stuff

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• My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Weapons, Kind

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• Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Writing, Energy, Comeback

  Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

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