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Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
BETTE DAVIS, quoted in Witty Words From Wise Women
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, Harper's Magazine, Mar. 1985
Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.
LYNDON B. JOHNSON, press conference, Jul. 28, 1965
History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.
RONALD REAGAN, speech, Jan. 16, 1984
To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
MORIHEI UESHIBA, The Art of Peace
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.
JIMMY CARTER, speech, Jan. 11, 1980
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, The Female Stress Syndrome
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, Wild at Heart
Sooner or later all the people of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, 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., Nobel Prize acceptance speech, Dec. 10, 1964
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