Aggression Quotes

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

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

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature's lessons.

The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man...it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

Sigmund Freud

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

To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.

MORIHEI UESHIBA

Mankind 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

It is the habit of every aggressor nation to claim that it is acting on the defensive.

Jawaharlal Nehru

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

Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.

Martin Luther King Jr

The most important distinction between aggression and assertion is its intent. During assertion, we move ourselves toward another; during aggression, we move ourselves against another.

GEORGIA LANOIL

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggression.

Sigmund Freud

Without aggression, it becomes possible to think well, to be curious about differences, and to enjoy each other's company.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either.

Jurgen Klinsmann

Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.

Margaret J. Wheatley

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

Ronald Reagan

Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something -- and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.

JOHN ELDREDGE

Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

George W. Bush

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

The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation.

Jeff Cooper

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