Aggression Quotes - Page 12

• I want to work beyond external aggressions, forget that one has something to do for others if it's not for oneself.

  Isabelle Adjani

  Want, Forget, Oneself

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• The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression.

  Stephen Hawking

  Failing, Humans

  "Stephen Hawking Warns That Aggression Could ‘Destroy Us All’" By Ed Mazza, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 23, 2015.

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• There are some nights when everything goes your way and some when it doesn't, and this wasn't our game. I was most disappointed with our lack of aggression as that is normally one of our characteristics.

  Fabio Capello

  Soccer, Night, Games

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• I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.

  Bob Paisley

  Soccer, Football, Hurt

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• I understand why so many female comics quit or change their path, because it is hard. It's hard to be a comedian, and people have so much aggression towards women. I don't really know where that comes from, but I feel a total responsibility, and I'm gonna do my part, to continue on the path that I'm on.

  Amy Schumer

  Responsibility, People, Comedian

  Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. April 26, 2012.

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• Must the mistakes of history be endlessly repeated? Granting PNTR to China will strengthen the hand of hard-liners, by telling the regime that America will never do anything meaningful to counter its aggression.

  Don Feder

  Meaningful, Mistake, Hands

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• Aggression is not a breed thing. Its a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you.

  Cesar Millan

  Dog, Ideas, Mind

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• It all stems from the same thing - which is that when we are face to face - and this is what I think is so ironic about Facebook being called Facebook, because we are not face to face on Facebook ... when we are face to face, we are inhibited by the presence of the other. 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

  Thinking, Ironic, Faces

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

  Herman Melville

  Beast, Menace, Ifs

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile”, p.246

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• True art is alive and inspired by humanity. I believe that art helps us to be free from aggression and depression.

  Leonid Afremov

  Depression, Art, Freedom

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• If the U.S. monopoly capitalist groups persist in pushing their policies of aggression and war, the day is bound to come when they will be hanged by the people of the whole world. The same fate awaits the accomplices of the United States.

  Mao Zedong

  War, Fate, People

  "Quotations from Chairman Mao Zedong (The Little Red Book)" by Mao Zedong, Ch. 6, 1964.

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• Major international interventions are doomed unless the US is directly or indirectly involved. But if American politicians, officials and servicemen are to be put at risk of arrest and prosecution, the United States will be most reluctant to act in order to curb aggression or prevent genocide. So the effect of the court may well be to diminish, not increase, the numbers of (in the words of the UN Secretary General) 'innocents of distant wars and conflicts'.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Order, Numbers

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• Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

  Angela Carter

  Hope, Eye, Men

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Germany is prepared to agree to any solemn pact of non-aggression, because she does not think of attacking but only acquiring security.

  Adolf Hitler

  Military, Thinking, Doe

  Adolf Hitler (1933). “The new Germany desires work and peace: speeches”

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

  John Hospers

  Government, Citizens, Protect

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• Leadership is not bullying and leadership is not aggression. Leadership is the expectation that you can use your voice for good. That you can make the world a better place.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Bullying, Work, Women

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• I define anarchist society as one where there is no legal possibility for coercive aggression against the person or property of any individual. Anarchists oppose the State because it has its very being in such aggression, namely, the expropriation of private property through taxation, the coercive exclusion of other providers of defense service from its territory, and all of the other depredations and coercions that are built upon these twin foci of invasions of individual rights.

  Murray Rothbard

  Rights, Focus, Defense

  "Society Without A State". The Libertarian Forum, 1975.

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• Buddhas have a strength which is not of this world. Their strength is totally of love... Like a rose flower or a dewdrop. Their strength is very fragile, vulnerable. Their strength is the strength of life not of death. Their power is not of that which kills; their power is of that which creates. Their power is not of violence, aggression; their power is that of compassion.

  Rajneesh

  Flower, Compassion, Rose

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• Female ambition is such a complicated thing to play because it is an aggressive quality, and people respond very badly to women exhibiting any kind of aggression.

  Romola Garai

  Ambition, Play, People

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• Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.

  Sigmund Freud

  Powerful, Men, Wish

  Sigmund Freud (1930). “Civilization and Its Discontents”, p.40, Courier Dover Publications

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• We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

  Dennis Kucinich

  War, Everyday, Trying

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• The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments.

  Sigmund Freud

  Men, Self, Support

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• When we walk slowly, the world can fully appear. Not only are the creatures not frightened away by our haste or aggression, but the fine detail of fern and flower, or devastation and disruption, becomes visible. Many of us hurry along because we do not want to see what is really going on in and around us. We are afraid to let our senses touch the body of suffering or the body of beauty

  Joan Halifax

  Flower, Suffering, Ferns

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• Why is it that aggression in the name of God shocks secular liberal sensibilities, whereas the act of killing in the name of the secular nation, or of democracy, does not?

  Talal Asad

  Names, Democracy, Doe

  Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, Saba Mahmood (2013). “Is Critique Secular?: Blasphemy, Injury, and Free Speech”, p.10

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• After a harassing warfare, prolonged by the nature of the country and by the difficulty of procuring subsistence, the Indians were entirely defeated, and the disaffected band dispersed or destroyed. The result has been creditable to the troops engaged in the service. Severe as is the lesson to the Indians, it was rendered necessary by their unprovoked aggressions, and it is to be hoped that its impression will be permanent and salutary.

  Andrew Jackson

  Country, Band, Lessons

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