AGGRESSION QUOTES

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Aggression quote

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

Tags: Martin Luther King Jr., love


Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.

JOHN DRISCOLL

The Sales Warrior Within


Aggression is the first step on the slippery slope to selfishness and chaos.

ANNE CAMPBELL

Men, Women, and Aggression

Tags: selfishness, chaos


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

MORIHEI UESHIBA

The Art of Peace

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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


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

Tags: Sigmund Freud, men


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

Tags: anger


Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.

BETTE DAVIS

attributed, Witty Words From Wise Women

Tags: Bette Davis, purpose


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

Tags: John Eldredge, men


Success only feeds the appetite of aggression.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON

press conference, Jul. 28, 1965

Tags: Lyndon B. Johnson, success


By reacting to aggression with aggression we lose the opportunity to spiritually benefit from the experience.

KYRIACOS C. MARKIDES

The Mountain of Silence


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

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By conceptualizing it as a bully/victim problem, the aggressive behavior is placed or anchored in a social context: The recipient of the aggression, the victim, comes into focus in addition to the aggressor. In this way, the repeated humiliation and suffering of the victim are brought into the foreground.

L. ROWELL HUESMANN

Aggressive Behavior: Current Perspectives


Put your sword back into its place. For all who take the sword will perish by the sword.

MATTHEW 26:52

Tags: Bible, violence


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


History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

RONALD REAGAN

speech, Jan. 16, 1984

Tags: Ronald Reagan, war


Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

CAMILLE PAGLIA

Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson

Tags: men, Camille Paglia


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

Tags: violence


Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease.

JIMMY CARTER

speech, Jan. 11, 1980

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We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression.

B. F. SKINNER

Walden Two

Tags: love