Aggression Quote by Sigmund Freud

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

— Sigmund Freud

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

— Robert Winston

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

— B. F. Skinner

Culture is the suggestion, from certain best thoughts, that a man has a range of affinities through which he can modulate the violence of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Arthur Koestler

The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering…

— Sigmund Freud

Aggression in attitude paves the way to take any challenge in life in positive way.

— DrAnil Kr Sinha

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female nature.

— Camille Paglia

“In our world riddled with male violence, the problem isn’t that testosterone can increase levels of aggression. The problem is the frequency with which…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

When people are really great at what they do there is no aggression because they are comfortable in their own skin. They know themselves…

— Joel Edgerton

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

There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.

— Konrad Lorenz