Aggression Quotes

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

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

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.

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.

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

The rules of engagement have become so rigid that governments often straightjacket themselves in the face of unambiguous aggression.

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.

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.

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

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

Aggression is simply another name for government.

Communism feeds on aggression, hatred, and the imprisonment of men's minds and souls. This shall not take root in the United States.

All it takes is a single act of aggression to permanently wound a nation's reputation.

I'm glad I have an outlet. I don't think I would put my aggression elsewhere, but working on the projects I have worked on, you tend to benefit personally from trying to wrap your head around the way other people look at the world.

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

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

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

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

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.

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

It is an exaggeration to call the Hamas and Islamic Jihad announcement a military alliance. It is rather a message that our people are united in the face of Israeli aggression.

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.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work.

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.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.