Aggression Quotes

“Life can be a dream, life can be a beautiful mess but, people make it hard with too much of ego, jealousy, anger and aggression.”
― Jyoti Patel

“At some point in the life of every scapegoat, the clock will strike the midnight hour, the masks will come off, and the aggression of family will reveal itself.”
― M. Wakefield, Narcissistic Family Dynamics: Collected Essays

“A final depressing point about inequality and violence. As we've seen, a rat being shocked activates a stress response. But a rat being shocked who can then bite the hell out of another rat has less of a stress response. Likewise with baboons - if you are low ranking, a reliable way to reduce glucocorticoid secretion is to displace aggression onto those even lower in the pecking order. It's something similar here - despite the conservative nightmare of class warfare, of the poor rising up to slaughter the wealthy, when inequality fuels violence, it is mostly the poor preying on the poor.”
― Robert Sapolsky

“Every major power has some widely publicized justification for its procurement and stockpiling of weapons of mass destruction, often including a reptilian reminder of the presumed character and cultural defects of potential enemies (as opposed to us stout fellows), or of the intentions of others, but never ourselves, to conquer the world.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“Our beliefs are like the boundaries of our mind, which protect us from external manipulations like tall boundary walls protect us from external aggression. Little do we realise that all forms of beliefs gradually become a prison to our mind.”
― Awdhesh Singh, Myths are Real, Reality is a Myth

“The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction.”
― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontents

“We are living in an age where honesty is seen as aggression, and truth must be sugared over or else be rejected as hate speech.”
― Mike Klepper

“We can rightly say that the thinning of the ozone layer is a scientific fact; it's not simply an opinion. But if the way we work with trying not to further harm the ozone layer is to solidify our opinion against those we feel are at fault, then nothing ever changes; negativity begets negativity. In other words, no matter how well documented or noble our cause is, it won't be helped by our feeling aggression toward the oppressors or those who are promoting the danger. Nothing will ever change through aggression.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Just as the Buddha taught, it’s important to see suffering as suffering. We are not talking about ignoring or keeping quiet. When we don’t buy into our opinions and solidify the sense of enemy, we will accomplish something. If we don’t get swept away by our outrage, then we will see the cause of suffering more clearly. That is how the cessation of suffering evolves.”
― Pema Chödrön, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

“Individual killings and wars on the largest scale are, he said, two ends of a continuum, an unbroken curve. It follows, not only in a trivial sense but also I believe in a very deep psychological sense, that war is murder writ large. When our well-being is threatened, when our illusions about ourselves are challenged, we tend - some of us at least - to fly into murderous rages. And when the same provocations are applied to nation states, they, too, sometimes fly into murderous rages, egged on often enough by those seeking personal power or profit.”
― Carl Sagan , Cosmos

“As far as socialism, I used to think I was fundamentally opposed to it, but eventually came to realize that wasn't really true, and that what I actually oppose is aggression. Voluntary socialism can be a wonderful way of living for small groups, and most people practice some form of it in their families. Only when imposed on people by force does socialism become evil. One of the beautiful things about a libertarian society is that people could still create socialist communes and be left alone to redistribute resources within them to their hearts' content, so long as no one is forced to join or prevented from leaving. This stands in stark contrast to a state-socialist society, which cannot similarly tolerate peaceful acts of capitalism among consenting participants.”
― Starchild

“...The barbarians are at the gates."

"The barbarians broke down the gates a long time ago... They're living among us now and devouring our children.”
― Daniel Silva, The Secret Servant

“I think that people mistake ignorance in animals for innocence; a tiger does not know how to use guns but that does not mean with the knowledge it would refrain from doing so.”
― Carmine Savastano

“Vaccination causes a lot of behavioral problems not the least of which is increased rage and aggression also anxiety. These behavioral changes are scientifically proven in both human and animals.”
― Patricia Jordan, Mark of the Beast: Hidden in Plain Sight

“The police murder of George Floyd showed the world what police aggression and violence looks like.”
― Steven Magee

“I’ve never had a violent bone in my body. Devious, sure. But sinister, never. I’ve always been the calm one; the rational one.”
― Krystalle Bianca, Perfectly Fractured (The Imperfect, #1).

“Aggression in a dog is similar to aggression in a human. We're both scared of what we don't understand, and our need to protect leads to aggression. Changing that aggression in a dog is more complex because the dog doesn't speak English, so I had to learn to speak dog.”
― Andre Gatling, Penelope's Bully

“Women live their lives trying to create bodies of deference. And anger is not compatible with deference... In the "cosmetic panopticon," expressing anger is disobedient and rebellious, powerful and threatening, because it is the seed of aggression and collective action.”
― Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

“Among the organizational means that humans have used to commit aggression against each other, those recognized as governments have been by far the most harmful. However they have not been the only institutional instruments of aggression. Other institutions – churches, corporations, groups such as the mafia and the narco-cartels, etc. – have also committed aggression on a scale that exceeds the individual capacity for evil. Although they did not call themselves governments, one could say they acted governmentally. Meanwhile, though rarely, some governments have mostly left people in peace. Therefore I say that government is as government does.”
― Starchild

“Isn't love at least as important in life as money? And aren't the objects of the romantic and sexual fantasies of the masses as dependent upon society for their desirable status as surely as the super-rich are for their material wealth? If a billionaire like Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey has to pay lots of money in taxes so that economically disadvantaged people's needs can be met, why shouldn't 'billionaires of love' like Pamela Anderson and Brad Pitt have to provide romantic walks on the beach and hot makeout sessions so that the needs of the romantically and sexually disadvantaged can likewise be met? Who are we as a society to judge that it is more wrong to force someone to be sexually intimate than to take their resources by force? The fact is that some people feel more violated by being robbed than by being groped. If we're going to have a redistributionist system based on aggression, wouldn't it be fairer, when Tax Day comes around, to at least give each victim a choice? 'Pay up or put out!”
― Starchild

“I wasn’t really sure I could take a three-foot beaver, let alone one with a cockney accent.”
― Sarsapariller, Marriage And Monsters - An Eschatological Romance

“Kisses, not hisses.”
― Steven Magee

“The tongue can be a powerful deflector of aggression. The men who came to arrest Jesus were arrested by the winsome words churning out from his silver tongue. “Never has another man spoken like this”, was their response for returning without him.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“I'm the caring type also. I care aggressively. That's just who I am.”
― Salman Rushdie, Quichotte

“The USA riots in 2020 made it easier for the world to understand the aggression and violence that is present in some police departments.”
― Steven Magee

“The cell phone video camera is exposing police aggression and corruption.”
― Steven Magee

“That’s it! Crunch into that bastard's liver.”
― Chloe Gilholy, Game of Mass Destruction

“The pursuit of peace happens when all forms of aggression are exhausted.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Unnecessary aggression is not justice or strength it is human weakness and desire.”
― C.A.A. Savastano

“Some men are brilliant talkers, I've met many like that. But almost none of them know when to be silent. Most of my female friends confuse the tough guys with the silent types. I think that's a movie myth. The worst examples of male aggression I've come across have been intolerably verbal.”
― Andrés Neuman, Talking to Ourselves