Human brain Quote by Karen Armstrong

“the world is conditioning your minds with violence”

— William P. Johnson

“the world is conditioning our minds with violence”

— William P. Johnson

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than…

— Katherine Dunn

“Did destruction of the human amygdala lessen aggression? Pretty clearly so, when violence was a reflexive, inchoate outburst preceding a seizure.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

— Dorothy Thompson

“you asked amygdala experts what behavior their favorite brain structure brings to mind, “aggression” wouldn’t top their list. It would be fear and anxiety.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Violence is the method of ignorance, the weapon of the weak. The strong of heart and brain need no violence, for they are irresistible…

— Alexander Berkman

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

— Robert Winston

“THE AMYGDALAfn8 IS the archetypal limbic structure, sitting under the cortex in the temporal lobe. It is central to mediating aggression, along with other…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat.”

— Luis Marques

“Many people implicitly believe in the Hydraulic Theory of Violence: that humans harbor an inner drive toward aggression (a death instinct or thirst for…

— Steven Pinker