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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
Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.
ANNE CAMPBELL, Men, Women, and Aggression
The first major classroom for the teaching and learning of aggression is the home. In the home, 4% of parents physically abuse their children (e.g., burn, fracture, shake to the point of concussion), and 90% make at least occasional (and sometimes frequent) use of corporal punishment (e.g., spank, hit, slap). What happens when an adult hits a child? The child ceases the behavior(s) that resulted in the punishment. PUnishment results in the cessation of the aversive event and, thus negatively reinforced, the adult is now more likely to use corporal punishment in response to the child's next transgression. Not only has the adult learned the correctness of the adage "might makes right," so too has the child.
ARNOLD P. GOLDSTEIN, Aggression Replacement Training
Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.
JOHN DRISCOLL, The Sales Warrior Within
The fact that bad is stronger than good is nowhere more apparent than in acts of violence and aggression. This principle is sometimes called the magnitude gap, referring to one important difference between the perpetrator and the victim: Almost inevitably, the victim loses more than the perpetrator gains. Aggression is thus not just a simple transfer or exchange; it lowers the total value available.
ROY F. BAUMEISTER & BRAD J. BUSHMAN, Social Psychology and Human Nature
Aggression is a constructive energy at the service of development, differentiation, mastery, object relations, and the maintenance of a satisfactory balance between the self and the environment.
ANA-MARIA RIZZUTO, The Dynamics of Human Aggression
Aggression is a biological response to a life-threatening situation. When there is an immediate threat to life, aggressive energy provides the power to do what needs to be done. Aggression in normal daily interactions is like activating a smoke alarm when there is no smoke. Actually, it is worse. The ringing alarm would be annoying, but it would do no harm. Aggression at best is annoying, and at worst, itself, becomes life threatening.
GWEN RANDALL-YOUNG, Growing Into Soul
If aggression is innate then all cultures should be equally aggressive, but this is obviously not the case.
SALLY GADSDON, Psychology and Sport
Aggression is necessary to deal with a hostile environment in the struggle for existence. Sexual aims could not be reached without the component of aggression. Aggression is needed in every phase of the development of the sexual instinct, and is so bound to the erotic instinct that to separate them is often difficult.
DALE B. HARRIS, The Concept of Development
When I find myself playing shorthanded against a better player, I remind myself that aggression is the great equalizer. It is very difficult--in fact mathematically impossible--for a player to beat a hyperaggressive opponent more than about two thirds of the time.
PHIL GORDON, Phil Gordon's Little Green Book
Aggression is different from anger. Anger is an emotion; aggression is a behavior. There are better ways to deal with anger than behaving aggressively. Aggressive talk, gestures or behaviors belong to the old way of being. Once we tune in to a higher level of consciousness, aggression is as unnecessary as is the hand-held plow in modern day agriculture.
GWEN RANDALL-YOUNG, Growing Into Soul
The human capacity for aggression is staggering. It has been estimated that 58 million humans were killed by other humans (an average of nearly one person per minute) during the 125-year period ending with World War II. War, homicide, riots, family violence, assassination, rape, assault, forcible robbery, and other violent acts offer sad testimony to the realities of human aggression.
DENNIS COON & JOHN O. MITTERER, Psychology
Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment.
SIGMUND FREUD, Civilization and its Discontents
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
Margaret J. Wheatley, attributed, The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Childhood Social Development
In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression—everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way—everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want—which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peacetime life for its inhabitants—everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear—which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor—anywhere in the world.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, State of the Union Address, Jan. 6, 1941
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