Aggression Quotes - Page 18

• Underneath our ordinary lives, underneath all the talking we do, all the moving we do, all the thoughts in our minds, there's a fundamental groundlessness. It's there bubbling along all the time. We experience it as restlessness and edginess. We experience it as fear. It motivates passion, aggression, ignorance, jealousy, and pride, but we never get down to the essence of it.

  Pema Chodron

  Moving, Ignorance, Passion

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.44, Shambhala Publications

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• Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Men, Savages, Tools

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• 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

  War, Home, People

  Adolf Hitler (1944). “Hitler's Words”

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• He (George W. Bush) should depart. He should go away from the presidency and let the Americans lead an ordinary life with other nations, not a life of aggression, a policy of aggression against other nations. This policy has brought about disasters to the U.S. So for the U.S. to live properly with the world and for the world nations to live in peace, this crazy man should go.

  Naji Sabri

  Crazy, Men, Going Away

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• Once practice starts, we work hard, and that's the best conditioning there is. Everything counts. Every little thing counts. Run hard, play hard, go after the ball hard, guard hard. If you play soft (what I call signing a 'non-aggression pact' with your teammates), you won't ever get into shape.

  Pete Carril

  Basketball, Running, Hard Work

  Pete Carril, Dan White (2004). “The Smart Take from the Strong: The Basketball Philosophy of Pete Carril”, p.153, U of Nebraska Press

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• Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Speed, Highways

  "Talking in Our Pajamas". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. Summer, 2008.

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• When there is no desire to satisfy yourself, there is no aggression or speed... Because there is no rush to achieve, you can afford to relax. Because you can afford to relax, you can afford to keep company with yourself, you can afford to make love with yourself, to be friends with yourself.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Love You, Making Love, Desire

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Three: Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism; The Myth of Freedom; The Heart of the Bud dha; Selected Writings”, p.80, Shambhala Publications

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• A powerful Navy we have always regarded as our proper and natural means of defense; and it has always been of defense that we have thought, never of aggression or of conquest. But who shall tell us now what sort of Navy to build? We shall take leave to be strong upon the seas, in the future as in the past; and there will be no thought of offense or provocation in that. Our ships are our natural bulwarks.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Strong, Powerful, Military

  Woodrow Wilson (2012). “President Wilson's Addresses”, p.154, tredition

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• Wars of aggression are the most barbarous of all human endeavors and are, more often than not, the instruments of insane tyrants who hear voices.

  Rodrigue Tremblay

  War, Tyrants, Voice

  Rodrigue Tremblay, Paul Kurtz (2010). “The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles”

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• To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position.

  Noam Chomsky

  Decision, Important, Technique

  Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). “American Power and the New Mandarins”, p.493, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Television was the only band of its ilk that treated the guitar with delicacy, not as simple rhythm support for teenage aggression.

  Richard Lloyd

  Teenage, Simple, Guitar

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• I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person, and that's got to come out somehow. I'm lucky that I get to play music, and that it's not going to come out in some totally destructive way.

  Annie E. Clark

  Play, Lucky, Way

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• It is urgent to prevent new U.S. aggression. The time is now for the world to say 'no' to U.S. threats of air attack against Iran, and to the very notion of a nuclear first-use 'option' by America or any other nation.

  Daniel Ellsberg

  Air, Iran, America

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• I've made so many people angry that they kind of blur into one unpleasant memory of people staring at you with somewhere between passive aggression and active aggression.

  John Oliver

  Memories, People, Kind

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• There's a part of bohemia I love. The lack of prejudice, the lack of aggression, I love the lack, for the most part, of competitiveness. It's more peaceful.

  Peter Mullan

  Peaceful, Prejudice, Competitiveness

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• The civil jury is the most effective form of sovereignty of the people. It defies the aggressions of time and man. During the reigns of Henry VIII (1509-1547) and Elizabeth I (1158-1603), the civil jury did in reality save the liberties of England.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Reality, Men, Law

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• No country in the world looks upon America as a friend. When the U.S. is mentioned, people are reminded of war, aggression and bloodshed, and that's not a good thing. In other words, the American people are paying for something they don't believe in.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, War, Believe

  "Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: An Interview with Iran's Agitator". Interview with Scott Macleod, content.time.com. December 25, 2006.

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• Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia, doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this State, against every aggression either foreign or domestic, and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.

  James Madison

  Government, Virginia, Support

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Independence, Citizens, Difficult

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Chapter III, 1835.

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• All wars of interference, arising from an officious intrusion into the concerns of other states; all wars of ambition, carried on for the purposes of aggrandizement; and all wars of aggression, undertaken for the purpose of forcing an assent to this or that set of religious opinions; all such wars are criminal in their very outset, and have hypocrisy for their common base.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Religious, War, Ambition

  Charles Caleb Colton (1828). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words Addressed to Those who Think”, p.228

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• For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Eight, Mass Destruction

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

  Tony Blair

  Believe, Wmd, Iraq

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• Hold'em is a game of calculated aggression. If your cards are good enough for you to call a bet, they are good enough to raise with.

  Al Alvarez

  Gambling, Games, Cards

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• Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten of aggression, and by aggression.

  Herbert Spencer

  Men, Sin, Iniquity

  Herbert Spencer (2016). “The Man versus the State: Great Essays”, p.47, VM eBooks

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• Translation is a form of passive aggression. In doing it, a writer chooses to forgo original authorship so as to play havoc with a foreign original in a process of imitation, zigzagging between the foreign and receiving languages but in the last analysis cancelling the first in favor of the second.

  Lawrence Venuti

  Play, Favors, Lasts

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