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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
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. -- Jimmy Carter
Aggression, the writer's main source of energy. -- Ted Solotaroff
Aggression is simply another name for government. -- Benjamin Tucker
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. -- Morihei Ueshiba
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. -- Sigmund Freud
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. -- Bette Davis
Man 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.
I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. -- Roger Bannister
If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force will be met with force and aggression against us will never be allowed to succeed. -- Lal Bahadur Shastri
All atheists must examine the Non Aggression Principle. -- Stefan Molyneux
Aggression is not the problem, is the outcome of a problem. -- Cesar Millan
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it. -- Mark David Chapman
Aggression only breeds more aggression. It only creates more fear and anger. -- Margaret J. Wheatley
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos. -- Anne Campbell
History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. -- Ronald Reagan
You can't have pride without humility. Aggression without tolerance. Strength without compassion. Power without restraint. -- D. J. MacHale
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host. -- Herbert Spencer
Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem! -- Steven Pinker
Aggression means emotions. Emotions means you're gonna get off your plan and that means you'll lose the fight. -- Wladimir Klitschko
We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace. -- George W. Bush
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions. -- Ron Paul
Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others. -- John Driscoll
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person. -- Paul Weller
Comedy is a socially acceptable form of hostility and aggression. That is what comics do, stand the world upside down. -- George Carlin
Aggression is what I do. I go to war. You don't contest football matches in a reasonable state of mind -- Roy Keane
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. -- Alfred Adler
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another; and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him. -- Thomas Jefferson
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
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
Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression. -- Antonio Tabucchi
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
We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. -- Tahar Ben Jelloun
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
Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton.Read -- Kami Garcia
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
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
Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. -- Eminem
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all. -- Eric Cantona
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. -- Ingrid Newkirk
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation. -- Jeff Cooper
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
Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' -- Philip Zimbardo
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. -- Thomas Mann
The Vietnamese people deeply love independence, freedom and peace. But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. -- Ho Chi Minh
Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden. -- Barbara Olson
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. -- Reinhold Niebuhr
In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. -- Carol Gilligan
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
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction? -- F. W. de Klerk
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. -- Noam Chomsky
Men have looked upon the desert as barren land, the free holding of whoever chose; but in fact each hill and valley in it had a man who was its acknowledged owner and would quickly assert the right of his family or clan to it, against aggression. -- T. E. Lawrence
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting, because all of those things are part of aggression. She will not take the initiative; she simply waits - and she can wait infinitely. -- Rajneesh
This aggression will not stand -- George H. W. Bush
This is passive-aggression in action. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Self abuse is anti-social, aggression still natural. -- Richey Edwards
Where there is fear there is aggression. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Success only feeds the appetite of aggression. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population... -- Jean-Paul Sartre
Emotionally I'm an introvert but it come off as aggression -- Kevin Gates
The inclination to aggression constitutes the greatest impediment to civilization. -- Sigmund Freud
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression. -- Stefan Molyneux
Fear invites aggression - do not show it to a predator. -- Brian Herbert
There is an aggression implicit in every use of the camera. -- Susan Sontag
The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression, -- Stephen Hawking
We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression. -- Ronald Reagan
Saddam is a familiar dictatorial aggressor, with traditional goals for his aggression. -- Brent Scowcroft
The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear. -- B. F. Skinner
Too much aggression and work will move what you desire further away. -- Bryant McGill
By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression. -- Sigmund Freud
Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity. -- Amy Dickinson
If you want to understand the causes of aggression, study police officers -- Steven Magee
Individual differences in testosterone level predict very little about differences in aggression. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred. -- Joseph Goebbels
To rid the world of aggression and contention is the purpose of Aikido -- Morihei Ueshiba
I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not. -- Alexei Navalny
Absolute dominion of a powerful people by a minority always produces national aggression. -- Philip Wylie
In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression. -- Philip Schuyler
Being on a highway, all that speed and aggression, is very terrifying to me. -- Sandra Cisneros
It is only when aggression is legitimate that one can expect prodigies of valour. -- Michel Ney
There can be no peace, no stability as long as occupation and aggression continue. -- Khaled Mashal
Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality." -- Paulo Coelho
Like the devout theologian seeing the Devil lurking everywhere, Menninger, the devout Freudian, sees aggression. -- Thomas Szasz
Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression. -- Albert Einstein
INITIATIVE, AGGRESSION, AIR DISCIPLINE, and TEAM WORK are words that MEAN something in Air Fighting. -- Adolph Malan
Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged. -- Robert M. Sapolsky
I became the magnet for a lot of scary aggression. Cos it's scary Up North! -- Marc Almond
The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks. -- Jane Goodall
I started boxing one day a week to experience aggression, which has been really interesting. -- Gwyneth Paltrow
It's important to note that aggression isn't the problem. It's the outcome of a problem. -- Cesar Millan
But which is the State's essential function, aggression or defence, few seem to know or care. -- Benjamin Tucker
Because the state necessarily commits aggression, the consistent libertarian, in opposing aggression, is also an anarchist. -- Stephan Kinsella
The U.S. victory in Gulf War was a stirring victory for the forces of aggression. -- Dan Quayle
By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience. -- Kyriacos C. Markides
Let our information and social technologies raise awareness and not propaganda, build connections and not passive-aggression. -- Criss Jami
Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression. -- Reuben Fine
Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. -- Lundy Bancroft
AAB actively campaigns to reduce aggression and counter bullying by creating peaceful campaigns such as Cyberkind. -- Louise Burfitt-Dons
There's an Oriental saying I like: "If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself. -- Matthew Reilly
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. -- Robert Winston
The problem is that the desire to change is fundamentally a form of aggression toward yourself. -- Pema Chodron
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. -- John Foster Dulles
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression. -- Jurgen Klinsmann
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression -- John Foster Dulles
Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods. -- George Carlin
Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. -- Richard Dawkins
Russia can play an important role in removing the occupation, ending the aggression and achieving national (Palestinian) rights. -- Khaled Mashal
Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance. -- Bryant H. McGill
The AK-47 is not a device of aggression ... I devised this machine-gun for the security of my country. -- Mikhail Kalashnikov
A real jiu-jitsu fighter does not go around beating people down. Our defense is made to neutralize aggression. -- Helio Gracie
If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies. -- Bob Dole
Our judgement is that the presence of the Royal Marines garrison is sufficient deterrent against any possible aggression. -- Margaret Thatcher
Most of the times, aggression will drive your enemy to do something that you are trying to prevent. -- Paulo Coelho
Undertaking initially to protect its citizens against aggression, [government] has often itself become "¦ a far greater aggressor. -- John Hospers
The list of U.S. vetoes at the Security Council to protect Israeli aggression and occupation is huge. -- Noam Chomsky

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