Quotes about Aggression

A society that presumes a norm of violence and celebrates aggression, whether in the subway, on the football field, or in the conduct of its business, cannot help making celebrities of the people who would destroy it. Lewis H Lapham

Aggression, the writer’s main source of energy. Ted Solotaroff

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. Jimmy Carter

The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, for the truth. Alfred Adler

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

He who knows how to be aggressive, and yet remains patient, becomes a receptacle for all of Nature’s lessons. Lao Tzu

He has a nasty instinct for the exposed groin, and always puts his knee in just to stir things up. Austin Mitchell (on Norman Tebbit)