Aggression Quotes - Page 15

• By nature's law, man is at peace with man till some aggression is
  committed, which, by the same law, authorizes one to destroy another as
  his enemy.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Law, Enemy

  Thomas Jefferson (1830). “Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson”, p.254

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• A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

  Linda Colley

  War, Expansion, Torn Apart

  Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press

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• However good an English team is, they will always have an additional advantage. It is that European players know that their English opponents will come at them in the belief they will win, and they can always be guaranteed never to stop fighting. They have a natural aggression that they are born with. If it ever goes, English football will lose its most valuable dimension.

  Johan Cruijff

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• This attack has made it clear, beyond all doubt, that the international Communist movement is willing to use armed invasion to conquer independent nations. An act of aggression such as this creates a very real danger to the security of all free nations.

  Harry S. Truman

  Real, Independent, Korea

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1961). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• 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

  People, Flags, Confederate

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We will stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. We will stop that nuclear arms race that could happen in the Middle East. We will also make that Putin knows we have brigades in eastern Europe to make sure we deter his aggression. Peace through strength works.

  Bobby Jindal

  Race, Iran, Europe

  "Is the Confederate flag controversy a Democratic problem?". "The Hannity Show", www.foxnews.com. June 25, 2015.

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• Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Independent, Israel, Doe

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not to administer charity; not to make roads and railways; but simply to defend the natural rights of man -- to protect person and property -- to prevent the aggressions of the powerful upon the weak -- in a word, to administer justice. This is the natural, the original, office of a government. It was not intended to do less: it ought not to be allowed to do more.

  Herbert Spencer

  Powerful, Men, Rights

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.125, VM eBooks

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• Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once.

  Lundy Bancroft

  Men, Abuse, Partners

  Lundy Bancroft (2003). “Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men”, p.128, Penguin

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• In short, pornography is not about sex. It's about an imbalance of male-female power that allows and even requires sex to be used as a form of aggression. ... But until we finally untangle sexuality and aggression, there will be more pornography and less erotica. There will be little murders in our beds - and very little love.

  Gloria Steinem

  Sex, Littles, Imbalance

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• Frankie [Avalon] ... was interested in eating everything so it didn't eat him first.

  Rona Barrett

  Actors, Avalon, Firsts

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• There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

  Gertrude Stein

  Success, Winning, Men

  Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.277, Vintage

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• There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Cameras, Use

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.8, Macmillan

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• I asked a lot of friends and people I'd meet, "Can you tell me a story of a micro-aggression that happened to you in a place you didn't expect it to happen?" I wasn't interested in scandal, or outrageous moments. I was interested in the surprise of the intimate, or the surprise of the ordinary.

  Claudia Rankine

  People, Ordinary, Lots Of Friends

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• The students often like to talk about movies that they feel are Orientalist like 300 or Babel. They talk a lot about the possibility of U.S. aggression against Iran and the Iranian hostages being held by the U.S. in Iraq.

  Mohammad Marandi

  Iran, Iraq, Students

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Symptoms like anxiety, depression, aggression, alcohol or drug use, are responses to physical and emotional pain that has its roots in traumatic experiences from childhood and later in life.

  Jed Diamond

  Pain, Emotional, Roots

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Since the beginning, the US presidents (all of European stock, of course), had been promoting slavery, extermination campaigns against the native population of North America, barbaric wars of aggression against Mexico, and other Latin American countries, the Philippines, etc. Has anything changed now? I highly doubt it.

  Andre Vltchek

  Country, War, Latin

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks.

  Jane Goodall

  Way, Gang, Compare

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My position on that has been misrepresented again and again and again in the media. Let me make it clear. There are two wars in Iraq. The first one was absolutely necessary and entirely justifiable. Saddam Hussein had attacked and invaded Kuwait, a sovereign independent state, it was a blatant act of aggression, and action was justifiable and necessary. I have no problems with that at all.

  Bernard Lewis

  War, Independent, Action

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• Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read

  Kami Garcia

  War, Age, Cotton

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• Our country and all the other socialist countries want peace; so do the peoples of all the countries of the world. The only ones who crave war and do not want peace are certain monopoly capitalist groups in a handful of imperialist countries that depend on aggression for their profits.

  Mao Zedong

  Country, Peace, War

  Mao Zedong (2017). “Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tung (The Little Red Book) & Other Works”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• It is my fervent goal and hope... that we will someday no longer have to rely on nuclear weapons to deter aggression and assure world peace. To that end the United States is now engaged in a serious and sustained effort to negotiate major reductions in levels of offensive nuclear weapons with the ultimate goal of eliminating these weapons from the face of the earth.

  Ronald Reagan

  Goal, Effort, World

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• Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator.

  Brian Herbert

  Fear, Predator, Shows

  Brian Herbert, Kevin J. Anderson (2010). “Dune: The Butlerian Jihad”, p.328, Macmillan

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• 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

  War, Past, Government

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• I am making this statement as an act of wilful defiance of military authority, because I believe that the War is being deliberately prolonged by those who have the power to end it. I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers. I believe that this War, on which I entered as a war of defence and liberation, has now become a war of aggression and conquest.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Military, War, Believe

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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