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Quotes about Aggression

with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.
- Victor Hugo
To ensure that erotic friendship never grew into the aggression of love, he would only meet each of his long-term mistresses only at long intervals. He considered this method flawless and propagated it among his friends: the important thing is to abide by the rules of threes. Either you see a woman three times in quick succession and then never again, or you maintain relations over the years but make sure that the rendezvous are at least three weeks apart.
- Milan Kundera
In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature.
- Carl Sagan
Apart from the social insects, no other species has been clever enough to invent war It is an institution optimally configured to benefit the alphas
- Carl Sagan
The Internet has given atheists, agnostics, skeptics, the people who like to destroy everything that you and I believe, the almost equal access to your kids as your youth pastor and you have... whether you like it or not.
- Josh McDowell
Rulers who want to unleash war know very well that they must procure or invent a first victim.
- Elias Canetti
I have to remind Arsene about his team, which used to win the league, that was the dirtiest team in the league. If you cast your mind back to when they were winning the league, they had more seedings-off and bookings than anyone else.
- Sam Allardyce
With all my fights, my style is to pretty much put a beating on. I don't exactly like hurting people, but unfortunately that's what we need to do in this game to win.
- Alexander Volkanovski
In that second I was wounded. My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge. A poor, uneducated servant in Africa was so secure he could ignore established White rudeness. No Black American I had ever known knew that security. Our tenure in the United States, though long and very hard-earned, was always so shaky, we had developed patience as a defense, but never as aggression.
- Maya Angelou
For not even lions or dragons have ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged with one another.
- St. Augustine
Like all such absurd acts of aggression, nothing was accomplished.
- Ted Dekker
There are no 'strong women.' And men, don't say, 'Real men don't try to bully women.' If a woman attacks you, you fight back.
- Jesse Lee Peterson