Aggression Quotes
373 quotes by 286 authors
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Aggression is an effective form of energy when focused on the right direction and shielded from all others.
— John Driscoll
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Aggression is simply another name for government.
— Benjamin Tucker
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They act as they please: here and there, they use force against sovereign states, building coalitions based on the principle 'If you are not with…
— Vladimir Putin
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If Pakistan has any ideas of annexing any part of our territories by force, she should think afresh. I want to state categorically that force…
— Lal Bahadur Shastri
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We're opposing Russia's aggression against Ukraine, which is a threat to the world, as we saw in the appalling shoot-down of MH17.
— Barack Obama
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...Uncalled-for aggression arouses the hatred of the civilian population...
— Jean-Paul Sartre
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Chess is a contest between two men which lends itself particularly to the conflicts surrounding aggression.
— Reuben Fine
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Chess is a more highly symbolic game, but the aggressions are therefore even more frankly represented in the play. It probably began as a war…
— Karl A. Menninger
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I do not exclude this, but I would like to draw your attention to one absolutely key aspect: In line with international law, only the…
— Vladimir Putin
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Everything done by the state is ultimately done by means of aggression, which is to say violence or the threat of violence against the innocent.
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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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…
— Peter Gay
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I refuse to be silent any longer. I refuse to be party to an illegal and immoral war against people who did nothing to deserve…
— Ehren Watada
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Being equally convinced that aggression and rudeness are synonymous with having a "powerful personality."
— Paulo Coelho
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You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there…
— Rajneesh
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Cinema is the culmination of the obsessive, mechanistic male drive in western culture. The movie projector is an Apollonian straight-shooter, demonstrating the link between aggression…
— Camille Paglia
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By abolishing private property one takes away the human love of aggression.
— Sigmund Freud
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The most fundamental paradox is that, if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We…
— Ronald Reagan
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The chief reason warfare is still with us is neither a secret death-wish of the human species, nor an irrepressible instinct of aggression, nor, finally…
— Hannah Arendt
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While I wholeheartedly support finding cost savings through efficiencies in all areas of the federal government, including defense, I will resist any actions that would…
— Doug Lamborn
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The foreign policy aim of ants can be summed up as follows: restless aggression, territorial conquest, and genocidal annihilation of neighboring colonies whenever possible. If…
— Bert Holldobler
Who Wrote These Aggression Quotes
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