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• Most of the victims of Nazi aggression were before the war less well off than Germany. They should not be expected by Germany to bear, unaided, the major costs of Nazi aggression.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Germany, Cost

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• At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.

  Stanislav Grof

  Mass Destruction, Greed, Humanity

  Stanislav Grof (2000). “Psychology of the Future: Lessons from Modern Consciousness Research”, p.267, SUNY Press

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• Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless.

  Katherine Dunn

  Men, Bravery, Selfless

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being.

  Ludwig von Mises

  War, Victory, Well Being

  Ludwig Von Mises (1985). “Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War”, Libertarian Press

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• But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Aquariums, Essentials, Care

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1926). “Individual liberty: selections from the writings of Benjamin R. Tucker”

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• A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Football, Business, People

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• No absolute is going to make the lion lie down with the lamb: unless the lamb is inside.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lying, Lambs, Lions

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• The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

  B. F. Skinner

  Tendencies, Clear, Humans

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• Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

  Jimmy Carter

  Patriotic, Presidential, Disease

  United States. President (1977-1981 : Carter), Jimmy Carter, United States. Office of the Federal Register (1977). “Jimmy Carter”

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• History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

  Ronald Reagan

  Veterans Day, Money, Peace

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression.

  Sigmund Freud

  Love, Humans, Property

  "The Major Works of Sigmund Freud".

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• Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Lust, Survival

  Camille Paglia (1990). “Sexual Personae”, p.42, Yale University Press

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• We, the lineal representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister traits of character by means of which they lived through so many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.

  William James

  Character, Mean, Successful

  William James (1918). “The Principles of Psychology, Vol. 2”, p.410, Courier Corporation

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• It is not a matter of wishing success to the victim of aggression, but of sharing his fate; one must accompany him to his death or to victory

  Che Guevara

  Fate, Victory, Wish

  Che Guevara (2002). “Guerrilla Warfare”, p.166, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• If there is no evidence that sport lowers aggression, at the same time it should be said that there is also no evidence that sport is motivated by aggression.

  Erich Fromm

  Sports, Motivated, Should

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness”, p.59, Open Road Media

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• Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression

  John Foster Dulles

  Order, Form, Capacity

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• How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence.

  Dennis Prager

  Media, Against Violence, Males

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.

  Herbert Spencer

  Host, Committed

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• We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression.

  Jurgen Klinsmann

  Winning, Giving, Defeat

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This aggression will not stand

  George H. W. Bush

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• In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . .

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Fall, Humble, Fighting

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• Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

  H. L. Mencken

  Funny, Badass, Anger

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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• Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved from men who are aggressive for what is wrong.

  Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

  Men, Evil, Politician

  "The Perils of Passive Citizenship". Robert M. La Follette, Sr.'s speech in Washington, D.C., August 11, 1924.

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• To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.

  George Santayana

  Blood, History, Arrogant

  George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2013). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Reason in Society, Volume VII, Book Two”, p.51, MIT Press

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• Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

  Margaret Mead

  Human Nature, Aggressive, Constructive

  Margaret Mead (2000). “And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America”, p.134, Berghahn Books

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