AGGRESSION QUOTES IV

quotations about aggression

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or [a] partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.

STEPHEN HAWKING

"Survival of the human race depends on kindness and co-operation, says Stephen Hawking", Daily Mail, February 19, 2016

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Aggression is how a player stamps their authority on the opposition. It's about intent. It's about power and dominance. The way a scrum locks horns in rugby. The grunt in a tennis forehand. The way Tiger's driver recoils off his back when he hits flat out. It is decisiveness, pace, strength, and commitment.

NEIL HARRIS

The Increment System


I think if you want to succeed, you need to have that attitude, that aggression to excel.

SANIA MIRZA

"Aggression is necessary to excel", The Times of India, November 4, 2015


Let's start with the way men reportedly police women's speech in tech offices. 84 percent of women were told that they were too "aggressive," which, if you don't get why that's sexist, just imagine a man being called aggressive and it not being a compliment.

CALEB PHERSHAN

"60% Of Women In Tech Are Sexually Harassed (And More Numbers To Make You Throw Up)", sfist, January 12, 2016


Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.

BENJAMIN TUCKER

Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890

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