Aggression Quotes - Page 15

• When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity to love and care about other people and your capacity to not be afraid. You're able to keep your eyes open, your heart open, and your mind open. And you notice when you get caught up in prejudice, bias, and aggression. You develop an enthusiasm for no longer watering those negative seeds, from now until the day you die. And, you begin to think of your life as offering endless opportunities to start to do things differently.

  Pema Chodron

  Inspirational, Heart, Eye

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• This is passive-aggression in action.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Action, Passive

  "Survivor". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 1999.

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• When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Parenting, Discipline

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• 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

  Manhattan, Tvs, Blame

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• Society had grown cruel. People who felt they were unwanted or unwelcome in their own country, reacted with aggression. There was no such thing as meaningless violence. Every violent act had a meaning for the person who committed it. Only when you dared accept this truth could you hope to turn society in another direction.

  Henning Mankell

  Country, Violent Acts, People

  FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Jul 29, 2011

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• Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. 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.

  Peace, Revenge, Men

  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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• You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint.

  D. J. MacHale

  Humility, Pride, Compassion

  D.J. MacHale (2009). “The Soldiers of Halla”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Saddam Hussein had a lengthy history of reckless and sudden aggression. He cultivated ties to terror -- hosting the Abu Nidal organization, supporting terrorists, and making payments to the families of suicide bombers. He also had an established relationship with Al Qaida -- providing training to Al Qaida members in areas of poisons, gases and conventional bombs. He built, possessed, and used weapons of mass destruction.

  Dick Cheney

  Suicide, Mass Destruction, Organization

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• History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

  Frank Gaffney

  Military, War, Army

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• Take away someone’s fear, or low intelligence, or dishonesty . . . and you take away their compassion. Take away someone’s aggression and you take away their motivation, or their ability to assert themselves. Take away their selfishness and you take away their sense of self-preservation.

  Veronica Roth

  Motivation, Compassion, Self

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• All this going around is not aggression. If you want to see aggression on cricket field, look into Rahul Dravid’s eyes

  Matthew Hayden

  Eye, Looks, Want

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

  Christina Aguilera

  Needs, Way, Precise

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• Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger.

  Margaret J. Wheatley

  Margaret J. Wheatley (2010). “Finding Our Way: Leadership for an Uncertain Time (Large Print 16pt)”, p.232, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• In that sense, Obama is America's first postmodern president. If his predecessors tended to see the world in terms of good and evil, Obama sees the world in terms of victims and victimizers - with the United States often in the role of victimizer. In that view, long favored by the academic left that shaped a young Barack Obama, American foreign policy is one long train of abuses, marked by casual aggression and eager imperiousness.

  Stephen F. Hayes

  Views, America, Evil

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• Although drugs are immoral and must be kept from the young, thousands of schools pressure parents to give the drug Ritalin to any lively child who may, sensibly, show signs of boredom in his classroom. Ritalin renders the child docile if not comatose. Side effects? "Stunted growth, facial tics, agitation and aggression, insomnia, appetite loss, headaches, stomach pains and seizures." Marijuana would be far less harmful.

  Gore Vidal

  Children, Pain, School

  "The Last Empire" by Gore Vidal, www.nytimes.com. November 1998.

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• We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all.

  Eric Cantona

  Greed, Pressure, Massive

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• We do this in order to slow down aggression. We do this to increase the confidence of the brave people of South Vietnam who have bravely born this brutal battle for so many years with so many casualties. And we do this to convince the leaders of North Vietnam-and all who seek to share their conquest-of a simple fact: We will not be defeated. We will not grow tired. We will not withdraw either openly or under the cloak of a meaningless agreement.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  War, Tired, Simple

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• It seems to me the worst possible concept, militarily, that we would simply stay there, resisting aggression, so-called...it seems to me that the way to "resist aggression" is to destroy the potentialities of the aggressor to continually hit you...When you say, merely, "we are going to continue to fight aggression," that is not what the enemy is fighting for. The enemy is fighting for a very definite purpose-to destroy our forces.

  Douglas MacArthur

  War, Fighting, Enemy

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• I got really interested in the language used in blogs written by young girls - a young person's aggression, which is always lacking from the visual world.

  Jenny Hval

  Girl, World, Language

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• When people denounced [former Iranian president Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad for rejecting and criminalizing homosexuality, it should be remembered that was true of the United States until very recently. Women's rights were unheard of. Civil rights proponents were horribly treated, not just in the South. It was awful there, but pretty bad here. Environmental issues did not exist. Opposition to aggression was virtually zero. In fact, so little, that to this day, even scholarship mentions the Vietnam War as beginning in 1965.

  Noam Chomsky

  Zero, War, Rights

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Every book that comes out, every article that comes out, talks about how - while it may have been a "mistake" or an "unwise effort" - the United States was defending South Vietnam from North Vietnamese aggression. And they portray those who opposed the war as apologists for North Vietnam. That's standard to say. The purpose is obvious: to obscure the fact that the United States did attack South Vietnam and the major war was fought against South Vietnam.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mistake, Book

  Source: chomsky.info

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• I think if I lost an edge, or the music didn't have the aggression or whatever, which is maybe one of the hallmarks of what I do, if indeed it is, I still think if you have something original in what you do and you keep doing that, then you're all right.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Thinking, Hallmark, Lost

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• What was the invasion of South Vietnam, for example, in 1962, when Kennedy sent the Air Force to bomb South Vietnam and start chemical warfare? That's aggression.

  Noam Chomsky

  Air, Invasion, Example

  Source: progressive.org

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• When women's sexuality is imagined to be passive or "dirty," it also means that men's sexuality is automatically positioned as aggressive and right-no matter what form it takes. And when one of the conditions of masculinity, a concept that is already so fragile in men's minds, is that men dissociate from women and prove their manliness through aggression, we're encouraging a culture of violence and sexuality that's detrimental to both men and women.

  Jessica Valenti

  Dirty, Mean, Men

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.172, Seal Press

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• We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

  B. F. Skinner

  Weakness, Power Of Love, Force

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.97, Hackett Publishing

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