Quote by Kevin Dutton

“When you’re exposed to hostility or aggression, you behave differently. Incivility sneaks into your subconscious. It’s easy to see how plagues of incivility can…

— Christine Porath

Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the…

— Margaret J. Wheatley

Antagonistic cooperation is the principle of all markets and many marriages.

— Mason Cooley

“We live in dramatic times. Violent confrontations are erupting in all parts of the world. Instinctively we feel that it does not have to…

— Dominique De Menil

All social cooperation on a larger scale than the most intimate social group requires a measure of coercion.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Relationships abhor a vacuum. Whenever one person refuses to mark and fight for their territory the other person will occupy the treasured ground either…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

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

— Anne Campbell

“unilateral sense of communication and cooperation, rather coercively, nay, even menacingly demand”

— Aindra Das

“Our most important relationships are neither cooperative nor competitive. Instead, they are both. Rather than choosing a single course of action, we need to…

— Anonymous

“Every social situation is fraught with ambiguity, knee-deep in complication, hidden meanings, veiled power-struggles, passive-aggression and paranoid confusion.”

— Kate Fox

“... the repression of primitive, violent impulses in favor of civilized behavior was a control mechanism for the more shrewdly aggressive dominators who successfully…

— R. U. Sirius

“Monogamous romantic commitment, like infallible lifelong attraction to only men or only women, is surely a minority tendency expediently elevated to a general social…

— Hannah Black