#aggression

Gosh, it's easy!' he marveled, open-mouthed. 'I never knew before how easy it is to kill anyone! Twenty years to grow 'em, and all it takes is one little push!' He was suddenly drunk with some new kind of power, undiscovered until this minute. The power of life and death over his fellowmen! Everyone had it, everyone strong enough to raise a violent arm, but they were afraid to use it. Well, he wasn't! And here he'd been going around for weeks living from hand to mouth, without any money, without enough food, when everything he wanted lay within his reach all the while! He had been green all right, and no mistake about it! Death had become familiar. At seven it had been the most mysterious thing in the world to him, by midnight it was already an old story. ("Dusk To Dawn") ↗

— Cornell Woolrich

#crime #death #murder #violence #death

My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose. ↗

— Bette Davis

#considered #drive #fingers #fist #gathered

Sometimes I think it's possible to mistake desire for clarity and talking in a no-nonsense way for aggression. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#clarity #desire #i #i think #mistake

Perhaps the strongest evidence that women have as broad and deep a capacity for physical aggression as men is anecdotal. And as with men, this capacity has expressed itself in acts from the brave to the brutal, the selfless to the senseless. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#aggression #anecdotal #brave #broad #brutal

I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs. ↗

— Roger Bannister

#aggression #aspect #behavior #difficult #had

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

#attempts #black #bowels #depression #hatred

I've pent up all my aggression, kept swallowing it and swallowing it. ↗

— Mark David Chapman

#i #kept #pent #swallowing #up

I feel like we need more aggression today. ↗

— Ludacris

#feel #i #i feel #i feel like #like

The peace movement is a great force for peace. Some of the world's most quarrelsome people act out their aggressions through the peace movement. ↗

— John McCarthy

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Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

#aggression #avenue #consciousness #demand #madison