Aggression Quote by Konrad Lorenz

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

— Robert Winston

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

— Arthur Koestler

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear.

— B. F. Skinner

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

— Sigmund Freud

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to…

— Sigmund Freud

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

“Humans are not innately good (just as they are not innately evil), but they come equipped with motives that can orient them away from…

— Steven Pinker

I believe-and human psychologists, particularly psychoanalysts should test this-that present-day civilized man suffers from insufficient discharge of his aggressive drive. It is more than…

— Konrad Lorenz

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

I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

— Taylor Sheridan

Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression.

— Jack Keane