#aggression

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

My solution to the problem would be to tell the North Vietnamese Communists frankly that they've got to drawn in their horns and stop their aggression or we're going to bomb them into the stone age. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#aggression #bomb #communists #drawn #frankly

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#nationalism #patriotism #virtue

Women particularly should concern themselves with peace because men by nature are more foolhardy and headstrong, and their overwhelming desire to avenge themselves prevents them from foreseeing the resulting dangers and terrors of war. But woman by nature is more gentle and circumspect. Therefore, if she has sufficient will and wisdom she can provide the best possible means to pacify man. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#circumspection #empowerment #men #peace #peacemaking

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

I have a lot of aggression in me that needs to come out in a not-very-precise or articulate way. ↗

— Christina Aguilera

#articulate #come #i #lot #me

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel. ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#chosen #deal #feel #freak #get

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

#about #accomplishment #aggression #also #child

In the different voice of women lies the truth of an ethic of care, the tie between relationship and responsibility, and the origins of aggression in the failure of connection. ↗

— Carol Gilligan

#between #care #connection #different #ethic

We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side. ↗

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

#aggression #agree #calmly #dialogue #engage