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Aggression is the feelings of anger, causing hostile and sometimes violent behavior. Aggression also creates readiness to attack or confront. Aggression can also be defined by forcefulness. Aggression comes from the deepest wishes of life. Aggression can be very cruel sometimes. Though aggression is negative almost always but in life aggression is needed sometimes. Negative aggression is what results bad almost always. Aggression often the expression of pent-up rage. This is a collection of 78 Aggression quotes and sayings.



If you want to release your aggression, get up and dance. That's what rock and roll is all about. - Chuck Berry
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.
There are historic situations in which refusal to defend the inheritance of a civilization, however imperfect, against tyranny and aggression may result in consequences even worse than war. - Reinhold Niebuhr
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture. - Sigmund Freud
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction? - F. W. de Klerk
We all seem to be about aggression and greed. It's a massive pressure that affects us all. - Eric Cantona
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. - Jimmy Carter
Aggression is something that is a part of me, and I'm never going to take that out of my game. - Dele Alli
The emotions in a song - the anger, aggression - have got to be legitimate. - Eminem
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace. - Morihei Ueshiba
In general, the mass media tell us that black people are not loving, that our lives are so fraught with violence and aggression that we have no time to love. - Bell hooks
Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person. - Paul Weller
Our voice is an independent voice to represent the dignity and the search for peace and the reformulation of the international system; to denounce persecution and aggression of hegemonistic forces on the planet. This is how Venezuela has presented itself. Bolivar's home has sought a non permanent seat on the Security Council. - Hugo Chavez
Aggression is not a breed thing. It's a state of mind, and it comes from how the human is with the dog. There are four levels of energy, regardless of the breed: low, medium, high, very high. The idea is to get a dog in your same level or lower than you. - Cesar Millan
I think when there's enough will and aggression, there's no shortage of talent either. - Jurgen Klinsmann
Aggression and forced redistribution of wealth has nothing to do with the teachings of the world's great religions. - Ron Paul
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans. - Margaret J. Wheatley
For to be poised against fatality, to meet adverse conditions gracefully, is more than simple endurance; it is an act of aggression, a positive triumph. - Thomas Mann
Some Muslim students experience secularism as an act of aggression. - Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense. - Noam Chomsky
We can only win by giving everything and being ready to defeat the adversary with fiery aggression. - Jurgen Klinsmann
In the utopian aim of removing all power and aggression from human behavior, we run the risk of removing self-assertion, self-affirmation, and even the power to be. - Rollo May
The will to survive is not as important as the will to prevail... the answer to criminal aggression is retaliation. - Jeff Cooper
Seeing a woman project the kind of aggression that you have to project as a comic just rubs me wrong. - Jerry Lewis
Aggression is the most common behavior used by many organizations, a nearly invisible medium that influences all decisions and actions. - Margaret J. Wheatley
The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth. - Alfred Adler
I'm in favor of destruction, aggression, hating things. Not bearing things anymore. We think the breakdown comes because our life is in bad shape. But maybe the ideas cause the disorder. Something tries to break through and causes the disorder. - James Hillman
We tried war, we tried aggression, we tried intervention. None of it works. Why don't we try peace, as a science of human relations, not as some vague notion - as everyday work. - Dennis Kucinich
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts. - Hans Kung
How a society channels male aggression is one of the greatest questions as to whether that society will survive. That's why I am not against violence in the media, I am against the glorification of immoral violence. - Dennis Prager
To summarize, draft resistance can make use of the inegalitarian nature of American society as a technique for increasing the cost of American aggression, and it threatens values that are important to those in a decision-making position. - Noam Chomsky
Our capacity to retaliate must be, and is, massive in order to deter all forms of aggression. - John Foster Dulles
Wars of aggression are popular nowadays with those nations convinced that only victory and conquest could improve their material well-being. - Ludwig von Mises
The aggression. The love. The joy. The pain. All those feelings and emotions that come from the music are Chicago. Chicago pretty much made me the man that I am. It's in my name. I have no choice but to accept and embrace that. - BJ the Chicago Kid
If you decide to move to another country and to live within its laws you don't express your disregard for the essence of the culture. It's a form of aggression. - V. S. Naipaul
Aggression at a time when the economy was growing at substantial rates and the retail lending as an industry was growing at a substantial rate was an appropriate aggression. Caution at a time when the economic environment is so uncertain is an appropriate caution. - War of aggression,
War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime. - Carlos Saavedra Lamas
My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential. - Noam Chomsky
I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated. - Steven Pinker
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. - Margaret J. Wheatley
Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.' - Philip Zimbardo
I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way. - Christina Aguilera
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition. Margaret - J. Wheatley
I try to perform honestly during the fight, and I always remember that I'm a representative of Russia. I try not to bring any aggression. Just honesty. - Fedor Emelianenko
It's easier to play aggression and malevolence onscreen, often, than to hit softer notes. - Joel Edgerton
At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope. - Stanislav Grof
In the history of the treatment of depression, there was the dunking stool, purging of the bowels of black bile, hoses, attempts to shock the patient. All of these represent hatred or aggression towards what depression represents in the patient. - James Hillman
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man. - Robert Winston
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore fighting until surrender was the only alternative. - Joichi Ito
Historically, aggression unanswered has led to more aggression. - Jack Keane
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool. - Katherine Dunn
I'm a loud person; I love noise and aggression. I crave contact. - Shirley Manson
All tyranny, bigotry, aggression, and cruelty are wrong, and whenever we see it, we must never be silent. - Ingrid Newkirk
What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression. - Brian Sutton-Smith
It is still more likely that a woman's power would be seen as aggression, and a man's power would be seen as assertion. - Jessye Norman
Aggression is simply another name for government. - Benjamin Tucker
There are only two cases in which war is just: first, in order to resist the aggression of an enemy, and second, in order to help an ally who has been attacked. - Charles de Secondat
When you're younger, you have a lot more aggression. - Chino Moreno
I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not. - Alexei Navalny
Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. - Godfrey Reggio
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations. - Franklin Pierce Adams
When somebody takes a child from their native culture, that is in itself an act of aggression. - Lemn Sissay
There is something very intriguing about, for example, the sense of accomplishment that a small child has, which you might be able to reduce to aggression and libido, but which might also have some independent existence. - Peter Gay
I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it. - Mark David Chapman
The man who is most aggressive in teaching tolerance is the most intolerant of all: he wants a world full of people too timid and ashamed to really disagree with anything. ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression. ― B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy. - Stefan Molyneux
If it were but known that the combined might of the world was against aggression, the war-minded could only seek his salvation in peace, perceiving that further ostentatious preparations for war were idle. - Eden Phillpotts
Aggression is just where politeness is ignored. - Amit Kalantri,
Maslow was right... Insecurity is main source of ego and aggression... Achievements and success leads to humbleness... It takes a lifetime... to understand nothing matters. - Talees Rizvi
No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him.
"The tendency of aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture. - Freud
There was a period where he kind of backed off his offensive aggressiveness to be a good team member. Now that we're kind of a little more in sync, the nature of the game is giving him certain opportunities. - Hamilton
Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.
Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. - McLuhan
"The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to authority. They have given themselves to the authority; they see themselves as instruments for the execution of his wishes; once so defined, they are unable to break free. - Milgram
"It's a great strategy for getting what you want. A lot of aggressive kids think aggression works. They think about one outcome, but not about the others.
Err on aggression has been our key. If you're going to make a mistake, make a mistake aggressively. Defense is definitely carrying us, and we pride ourselves on that. - Bozeman
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