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“If we can cultivate in the world the idea that aggressive war-making is the way to the prisoner's dock rather than the way to honors, we will have accomplished something toward making the peace more secure.”

Ifs World Way Ideas War Honor Secure Accomplished Prisoner Aggressive Docks

Author:Robert H. Jackson

“We Communists have got to string along with the capitalists for a while. We need their agriculture and their technology. But we are going to continue massive military programs. . . (soon) we will be in a position to return to a much more aggressive foreign policy designed to gain the upper-hand.”

Needs Hands Technology Military Policy Position Return Gains Program Strings Massive Communist Aggressive Capitalist Foreign Policy Agriculture Upper Hand

Author:Leonid Brezhnev

“No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society.”

Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud

“We have to be aggressive when those we stick up for have no voice. I don't consider it radical to say cruelty is wrong and that animals should be respected. I consider it radical to eat corpses, put electrodes in animals' heads, make elephants live in chains in the circus, and poison animals we consider a nuisance.”

Should Voice Animal Sticks Cruelty Chains Radical Poison Aggressive Elephants Circus Corpses Nuisance

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“an off-screen persona of Globally Conscious Earth Mother and an aggressive on-screen embodiment of Kali, Goddess of Destruction.”

Earth Mother Conscious Destruction Screens Aggressive Goddess Persona Embodiment Kali

Author:Angelina Jolie

“The Bobbit case, which brought to life the ancient mythic archetype of woman as castrator, demonstrated that women are as aggressive as men and that sex is a dark, dangerous force of nature. But of course the feminist establishment, stuck in its battered-woman blinders, learned nothing as usual from this lurid refutation of its normal views. Classic art works like Bizet's Carmen tell us more about the irrationality of love, jealousy and revenge than do all the pat formulas of the counseling industry.”

“I refer to the misunderstanding of Soviet Russia as an aggressive power, militaristically and ideologically bent upon world domination 'seeing', to quote a recent speech of the British Prime Minister, 'the rest of the world as its rightful fiefdom.' How any rational person, viewing objectively the history of the last thirty-five years, could entertain this 'international misunderstanding' challenges, if it does not defeat, comprehension. The notion has no basis in fact... If Russia is bent on world conquest, she has been remarkably slothful and remarkably unsuccessful.”

“If we have learned anything in the past ten years, it is that these lovely things about America were never lovely. We have been expansionist and aggressive and mean to other people from the beginning. And we've been aggressive and mean to people in this country, and we've allocated the wealth of this country in a very unjust way. We've never had justice in our courts for the poor people, for black people, for radicals. Now how can we boast that America is a very special place? It's not that special. It really isn't.”

People Ifs Way Years Mean Has Beens Country America Past Black Wealth Justice Poor Special Ten Court Lovely Radical Aggressive Black People Unjust Poor People Boast Special Places Lovely Things

Author:Howard Zinn

“Football used to be my god but no longer is. I still love it, I'm still aggressive, I still want to be very successful at it, I want to win a lot of football games. And my job is to be the best football player in the world, because it affords me a life; it pays, it's my job, and so it hasn't dulled my senses for the game or the love or the great excitement I get from the game. It's just that I'm very much at peace with myself because of my faith.”

World Want Stills Jobs Used Games Winning Pay Successful Player Football Senses Used To Be Excitement Being The Best Aggressive Best Football Football Player Football Game

Author:Terry Bradshaw

“For inspiration I look to those great players who consistently found original ways to shock their opponents. None did this better than the eighth world champion, Mikhail Tal. The "Magician of Riga" rose to become champion in 1960 at age twenty-three and became famous for his aggressive, volatile play.”

World Way Looks Play Inspiration Age Three Found Player Twenties Originals Rose Champion Opponents Shock Aggressive Consistently Magician 1960s World Champions

Author:Garry Kasparov

“I'd like to see a more aggressive attitude on the part of the United States. That doesn't mean launching an immediate preventive war.”

Mean War States United Attitude United States Aggressive Launching Preventive War

Author:Curtis LeMay

“Altruism is masked self-interest. Aggressive self-interest is a masked urge to self-destruction.”

Self Interest Destruction Urges Aggressive Altruism Self Interest Self Destruction

Book:The Forge of God

Source: The Forge of God

“The academic mind, as we know, is sometimes capable of assuming an aggressive attitude. The official mind, on the contrary, is and has to be, expert in the art of self-defence.”

Knows Mind Art Self Sometimes Attitude Capable Assuming Contrary Experts Officials Aggressive Academic Defence Self Defence

Author:Ronald Fisher

“Women are now more aggressive than men! And I don't put them down for it. I think it's great. My attitude with sex with any woman I've ever been with is, I want you to be exactly who you want to be behind closed doors. Don't ever hold back with me.”

Thinking Men Want Sex Behinds Attitude Doors Aggressive I Want You My Attitude Closed Doors Behind Closed Doors

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“If you hide what you really are, then there's going to be problems in marriage down the road. I don't mind if a girl is aggressive. It's just sex.”

Ifs Mind Problem Girl Sex Aggressive Down The Road

Author:Andrew Dice Clay

“I disagree with the followers of Marx and those of Adam Smith: the reason free markets work is because they allow people to be lucky, thanks to aggressive trial and error, not by giving rewards or "incentives" for skill.”

People Giving Reason Lucky Skills Errors Rewards Trials Thanks Followers Aggressive Disagree Adam Free Market Incentives Trial And Error Tinkering Black Swan

Book:The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

Source: The Black Swan: Second Edition: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility

“The fact that a Jewish state needs to exist at all - and it does need to exist - is an indictment of all humanity, and especially the Catholic Church, whose centuries-long programme of aggressive Jew hatred has been ingrained right into the European psyche so that it takes almost nothing to bring it out.”

Needs Long Doe Has Beens States Facts Humanity Church Century Hatred Catholic Jew Aggressive Catholic Church Programmes Indictment

Author:Pat Condell

“If family and society tell you its unfeminine, not really womanly, to be aggressive, to speak up, to have strong opinions, to take up space, then women won't trust their own voice, because to be heard and to be influential, you've got to have a way to sing out with passion and love and self-trust - to sing out your song for everyone to hear.”

Ifs Way Self Song Passion Speak Strong Women Voice Space Opinion Heard And Love Aggressive Influential Self Trust Love And Passion Womanly Strong Opinions

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“According to the first image of international relations, the locus of the important causes of war is found in the nature and behavior of man. Wars result from selfishness, from misdirected aggressive impulses, from stupidity.”

Men Firsts Important War Found Causes Results Behavior Relation International Stupidity Selfishness Impulse Aggressive International Relations Causes Of War

Book:Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

Source: Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis

“The public's continuing ambivalence about cultural matters is all the more striking given that the political conversation on these issues has for 30 years been dominated by an aggressive, radical right-wing insurgency that has achieved an influence far out of proportion to its numbers. Its potent secret weapon has been the guilt and anxiety about desire that inform the character of Americans regardless of ideology; appealing to those largely unconscious emotions, the right has disarmed, intimidated, paralyzed its opposition.”

“Critics of the war plans (including myself) have pointed to the disastrous political results that must be expected: Iraq would break into three parts (Kurds in the north, Sunnis in the center, Shi'ites in the south), the Middle East would be exposed to the onslaught of Iranian fanaticism, pro-Western Arab regimes would collapse. Israel would be surrounded by aggressive Islamic fundamentalism, like the Crusader kingdom with the advent of Saladin.”

“When Nietzsche praises egoism it is always in an aggressive or polemical way, against the virtues, against the virtue of disinterestedness (Z III "Of the three evil things"). But in fact egoism is a bad interpretation of the will, just as atomism is a bad interpretation of force. In order for there to be egoism it is necessary for there to be an ego.”

Way Facts Order Three Evil Force Virtue Ego Praise Interpretation Aggressive Egoism Evil Things

Book:Nietzsche and Philosophy

Source: Nietzsche and Philosophy

“[T]he Swiss people are the best practitioners of the ideals of non-aggression. The Swiss national government posts are parttime positions. Most decisions are made at the canton (state) level. Swiss per capita income is the highest in the world, showing that non-aggression pays. How did the Swiss come to adopt a relatively non-aggressive constitution in an aggressive world? In the mid-1800s, they imitated our constitution and stuck with it!”

People World Made States Government Decision Levels Pay Position Highest Ideals Constitution Stuck Income Posts Aggressive Aggression Swiss

Author:Mary Ruwart

“If Apple has a flaw, it's the inability of the company to crush competition using the kind of aggressive tactics that companies like Microsoft and Intel have always applied.”

Ifs Kind Company Competition Apples Crush Flaws Aggressive Inability Tactics Microsoft

Author:John C. Dvorak

“When people hear our record, they're not going to be able to put us into the 'New Metal' category or the 'pop-punk' category or the 'aggressive emo' category. I think people will be able to take it for what it is.”

People Thinking Able Records Pops Categories Aggressive Metals Punk Emo

Author:Bert McCracken

“I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.”

“I made the first 'Blumen' picture after looking at Robert Mapplethorpe's Pictures book. I was struck by how much freedom Mapplethorpe was able to extract from his model's restraint-that in tying up and cropping his models, he appears to be able to work with people as forms. I never thought about my flowers as related to his (which I saw as annoyingly erotic); I thought of them in relationship to bondage. I wanted to make the flowers more aggressive and ironic and less docile and sensual.”

People Firsts Made Book Able Wanted Form Saws Flower Models Sensual Related Aggressive Ironic Restraint Bondage Erotic Picture Books Docile

Author:Collier Schorr

“America is dumb, it's like a dumb puppy that has big teeth that can bite and hurt you, aggressive.”

Bigs America Hurt Teeth Dumb Bites Aggressive Puppy

Author:Johnny Depp

“With each newly minted crisis, US leaders roll out the same time-tested scenario. They start demonizing a foreign leader ... charging them with being communistic or otherwise dictatorial, dangerously aggressive, power hungry, genocidal, given to terrorism or drug trafficking, ready to deny us access to vital resources, harboring weapons of mass destruction, or just inexplicably "anti-American" and "anti-West." Lacking any information to the contrary, the frightened public ... are swept along.”

“For their own good, vegetarians should never be allowed near fine beers and ales. It will only make them loud and belligerent, and they lack the physical strength and aggressive nature to back up any drunken assertions.”

Should Fine Drinking Beer Loud Vegetarian Aggressive Assertion Ale Physical Strength

Book:The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones

Source: The Nasty Bits: Collected Cuts, Useable Trim, Scraps and Bones

“Contrary to received wisdom, the British are not an insular people in the conventional sense - far from it. For most of their early modern and modern history, they have had more contact with more parts of the world than almost any other nation - it is just that this contact has regularly taken the form of aggressive military and commercial enterprise.”

People World Form Nations Taken Modern Military British Contrary Contact Enterprise Aggressive Conventional British History Modern History

Book:Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

Source: Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837

“Chimps are very quick to have a sudden fight or aggressive episode, but they're equally as good at reconciliation.”

Fighting Aggressive Episodes Reconciliation

Author:Jane Goodall

“Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.”

Ifs World Humans Looks Behavior Around The World Aggressive Human Behavior

Author:Jane Goodall

“If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.”

Ifs Men Literature Authority Aggressive Pushy Caustic

Author:Barbara Walters

“I didn't come from a household where my mother dragged me outside and said, "You'd better fight." My mother wouldn't let me fight. I was not an aggressive kid.”

Said Kids Mother Fighting Let Me Aggressive Household

Author:Mike Tyson

“I wouldn't say that I'm aggressive in going out to find work and stuff like that. I just sort of, if something comes along, and it's something I like, and they want to hire me, I'll do it. I won't just do anything.”

Ifs Want Stuff Aggressive Going Out

Author:Paul Giamatti

“...and suddenly it hits you: Human skin is actually made up of billions of tiny units of protoplasm, called "cells"! And what is even more interesting, the ones on the outside are all dying! This is a fact. Your skin is like an aggressive modern corporation, where the older veteran cells, who have finally worked their way to the top and obtained offices with nice views,are constantly being shoved out the window head first, without so much as a pension plan,by younger hotshot cells moving up from below.”

Way Firsts Humans Made Facts Moving Interesting Views Nice Plans Modern Dying Office Window Skins Billions Tiny Cells Corporations Aggressive Units Veteran Pension Moving Up Pension Plans

Author:Dave Barry

“The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.”

People Father Speak Policy Position Currents Administration Reaching Aggressive Extensions 80s Thrust Don't Trust Syndromes Alzheimer Alzheimer's Secretive

Author:Ron Reagan

“If you find my aggressive and dominating play dirty, then that's your opinion. But I would assume most people want someone who is going to do anything and everything within the lines to win for their team, because I know I would.”

People Ifs Knows Want Play Winning Lines Opinion Team Assuming Dirty Aggressive Dominating Anything And Everything

Author:Ndamukong Suh

“Throughout history civilian populations and political rulers have talked of peace. We have never been free of war. The soldier, whose profession is war, understands that peace must be enforced by superior military might. The certainty of defeat is the only effective deterrent we can use to maintain peace. Furthermore, we can be strong without being aggressive.”

War Use Might Political Strong Military Defeat Soldier Population Profession Superiors Certainty Aggressive Rulers Civilians Deterrent

Author:Barry Goldwater

“I have a great desire to make people smile - not laugh. Laughter is too aggressive. People bare their teeth.”

People Desire Laughing Laughter Teeth Aggressive Make People Smile

Author:Muriel Spark

“Olive Schreiner is less a woman than a geographical fact. Just as one thinks of Egypt as a foreground for the Pyramids, so South Africa seems the setting of that warm, attractive, aggressive personality. Her work is far inferior to her.”

Thinking Facts Seems Personality South Warm Setting Settings Attractive Aggressive South Africa Inferiors Egypt Pyramids Olives Foreground

Book:The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

Source: The young Rebecca: writings of Rebecca West, 1911-17

“Eating is aggressive by nature, and the implements required for it could quickly become weapons; table manners are, most basically, a system of taboos designed to ensure that violence remains out of the question.”

Violence Eating Weapons Tables Remains Manners Aggressive Taboo Table Manners

Book:The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

Source: The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners

“I think we need to teach pleasure. What beautiful touch means. What reciprocity means. What being connected and what intimacy means. Boys get out there at a young age and the performance posturing is so great and ends up being hard and aggressive.”

Thinking Needs Mean Ends Hard Age Beautiful Young Pleasure Boys Teach Performances Connected Intimacy Aggressive Young Age Reciprocity Touch Me

Author:Eve Ensler

“A man is commanding - a woman is demanding. A man is forceful - a woman is pushy. A man is uncompromising - a woman is a ball-breaker. A man is a perfectionist - a woman's a pain in the ass. He's assertive - she's aggressive. He strategizes - she manipulates. He shows leadership - she's controlling. He's committed - she's obsessed. He's persevering - she's relentless. He sticks to his guns - she's stubborn. If a man wants to get it right, he's looked up to and respected. If a woman wants to get it right, she's difficult and impossible.”

“Even the best critical writing on Emily Dickinson underestimates her. She is frightening. To come to her directly from Dante, Spenser, Blake, and Baudelaire is to find her sadomasochism obvious and flagrant. Birds, bees, and amputated hands are the dizzy stuff of this poetry. Dickinson is like the homosexual cultist draping himself in black leather and chains to bring the idea of masculinity into aggressive visibility.”

Writing Ideas Hands Stuff Black Bird Obvious Critical Chains Aggressive Frightening Bees Homosexual Underestimate Masculinity Leather Emily Blake Dizzy Visibility Baudelaire Spenser

Author:Camille Paglia

“The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.”

“Westerners have aggressive problem-solving minds; Africans experience people.”

People Mind Problem Aggressive Problem Solving Westerners

Author:Kenneth Kaunda

“Feedback for leaders is often nuanced and difficult to deliver. That said, hearing you are passive-aggressive from 10 different people described 10 different ways becomes hard to ignore.”

People Way Said Different Hard Difficult Leader Hearing Different Ways Aggressive Passive Feedback Different Peoples Passive Aggressive

Author:Scott Weiss

“I have come to think of violence as a self-perpetuating mania of the power of the aggressive over those less strong.”

Thinking Self Strong Silence Violence Aggressive Mania Perpetuating

Book:Break No Bones: A Novel

Source: Break No Bones: A Novel

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