Aggression Quotes - Page 5

• Aggression is simply another name for government.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Government, Names

  Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890.

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• I am ever unwilling that [peace] should be disturbed as long as
  the rights and interests of the nations can be preserved. But whensoever hostile aggressions on these
  require a resort to war, we must meet our duty and convince the world that we are
  just friends and brave enemies.

  Thomas Jefferson

  War, Rights, Long

  Thomas Jefferson, Brett F. Woods (2009). “Thomas Jefferson: Thoughts on War and Revolution : Annotated Correspondence”, p.205, Algora Publishing

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• A totally different attitude is needed: the attitude of love. Christ brings love to the world. He destroys law, the very basis of it. That was his crime; that's why he was crucified - because he was destroying the whole basis of this criminal society; he was destroying the whole foundation rock of this criminal world, the world of wars, and violence, and aggression. He gave a totally new foundation stone.

  Rajneesh

  Attitude, War, Rocks

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• Aggression, the writer's main source of energy.

  Ted Solotaroff

  Writing, Energy, Comeback

  Ted Solotaroff (2008). “The Literary Community: Selected Essays : 1967-2007”

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• The curse of modern times is the preponderance of male hormones in places where they can do long-term damage. Even if were not talking about wars between nations or assaults on nature, there's still that aggressiveness that keeps us apart from each other and the problems we need to be working on.

  Robert James Waller

  War, Talking, Long

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• I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting.

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Boxing, Interesting, One Day

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization.

  Sigmund Freud

  Civilization, Inclination, Impediments

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• I love watching Virat Kohli bat. I love his aggression and serious passion that I used to have. He reminds me of myself.

  Viv Richards

  Passion, Bats, Serious

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• Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural.

  Richey Edwards

  Self, Abuse, Natural

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• Warriorship does not refer to making war on others. Aggression is the source of our problems, not the solution. Warriorship is the tradition of human bravery, or the tradition of fearlessness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  War, Bravery, Doe

  Chogyam Trungpa (2010). “The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa: Volume Eight: Great Eastern Sun; Shambhala; Selected Writings”, p.19, Shambhala Publications

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• My aggression out there is my weapon. I think it's more letting them know that I'm not going to let them get away with something, and I'm not just going to kind of poke it back and be content to stay in rallies.

  Andy Roddick

  Thinking, Weapons, Kind

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• In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

  Katherine Dunn

  Struggle, Survival, Tools

  FaceBook post by Katherine Dunn from Sep 02, 2012

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• I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

  Jonathan Davis

  Night, World, Stuff

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• At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, World, Four

  Thomas Carlyle, Chris Vanden Bossche (2002). “Historical Essays”, p.68, Univ of California Press

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• Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of aggression deserve the rapid and decisive response they received.

  John Boehner

  Cities, Soldier, Rockets

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• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

  Hans Kung

  Xenophobia, Hate, Moving

  Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press

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• In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought.

  Elihu Root

  Country, Desire, Territory

  Elihu Root (1916). “Addresses on International Subjects”

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• In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient.

  James Hillman

  Hatred, Black, Patient

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• It was known in the mid 90s already that Saddam Hussein was a dangerous tyrant that he had already launched aggressions against Iran, he had invaded Kuwait.

  Douglas J. Feith

  Iran, Kuwait, Tyrants

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• Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

  Emile M. Cioran

  People, Doe, Facts

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• The guys on the stunt team are really fantastic. It's really funny, because for all the aggression they have to display on screen, they're actually really happy, good- natured people.

  Miranda Otto

  Funny, Team, People

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• My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age.

  Curtis LeMay

  Horny, Age, Would Be

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 565), 1965.

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• In the case of Iraq, notwithstanding the violence there at the moment, the very fact that a hideous regime - responsible for genocide, for the use of chemical and biological weapons, aggression against two neighbors - has been removed in itself is a positive development.

  Jose Ramos-Horta

  Two, Iraq, Use

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• There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence.

  Peter Gay

  Children, Independent, Accomplishment

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• I think the global community always has a ... has a responsibility to any humanitarian crisis. And I think it's in our best interest to address a humanitarian crisis on this scale because displacement can can lead to a lot of instability and aggression.

  Angelina Jolie

  Responsibility, Thinking, Community

  "CNN interviews Angelina Jolie". Interview with Arwa Damon, edition.cnn.com. February 7, 2008.

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