#aggressive

The sublimated idealism of the Enlightenment, the spirit of the League of Nations and of the United Nations Charter have not proved strong enough to control the aggressive dynamism of nationalism. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

#charter #control #dynamism #enlightenment #enough

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men. ↗

— Katherine Dunn

#eager #evidence #females #growing #how

I was extremely aggressive from the start. ↗

— Emerson Fittipaldi

#extremely #i #start

After Nixon resigned in 1974, he engaged in a very aggressive war with history, attempting to wipe out the Watergate stain and memory. Happily, history won, largely because of Nixon's tapes. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#aggressive #attempting #because #engaged #happily

Newspapers that are truly independent, like The Washington Post, can still aggressively investigate anyone or anything with no holds barred. ↗

— Bob Woodward

#anyone #anything #barred #holds #independent

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#council #enough #failure #i #maybe

The most powerful recent innovation in government is when states aggressively use community colleges for retraining. In Michigan, where large numbers of workers were displaced from the manufacturing industry, we created a wildly successful program: No Worker Left Behind. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#behind #colleges #community #created #displaced

We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no. ↗

— Edie Brickell

#been #better #enough #had #helped

We must do everything we can to be more aggressive in confronting Syria about what they are doing in Iraq. ↗

— Sam Brownback

#aggressive #confronting #doing #everything #iraq

In the U.S., oddly, we have images of men as arrogant and aggressive. ↗

— David Duchovny

#arrogant #images #men #oddly