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“I'm not going to appeal to violence or aggression - of course not.”

Courses Violence Appeals Aggression

Author:Alexei Navalny

“Wanting anything too desperately is a form of aggression and violence, which will always be met with resistance.”

Form Violence Mets Resistance Aggression Aggression And Violence

Author:Bryant H. McGill

“What eleven- to thirteen-year-old boys fear is passivity of any kind. When they do act passively we can be fairly certain that it is an act of aggression designed to torment a parent or teacher. . . . Mischief at best, violence at worst is the boy's proclamation of masculinity.”

Years Kind Certain Parent Boys Teacher Violence Worst Aggression Masculinity Torment Eleven Mischief Thirteen Passivity Proclamation Thirteen Year Olds

Book:Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

Source: Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood

“The shackles and the chains, the violence and aggression, the pettiness and scorn, the jealousy and hatred, the tempest and discord.”

Violence Hatred Revenge Chains Aggression Scorn Retribution Tempest Discord Shackles Pettiness

Author:Joe Walsh

“Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a 'civilised,' man must be peaceable!”

Men Way Violence He Man Tools Method Cruelty Primitive Aggression Savages Barbarians Bloodshed Civilised

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“[I]t's impossible to evade the fact that Endless War will inevitably degrade the citizenry of the country that engages in it. A country which venerates its military above all other institutions, which demands that its soldiers be spoken of only with religious-like worship, and which continuously indoctrinates its population to believe that endless violence against numerous countries is necessary and just - all by instilling intense fear of the minorities who are the target of that endless violence - will be a country filled with citizens convinced of the virtues and nobility of aggression.”

“If we as a society want to cure unemployment, raise real wages, and in other ways improve our economy, we will base public policy on private property rights, the non-aggression principle and the law of free association. In the free and prosperous society, everyone may do precisely as he pleases, provided only that he does not initiate violence against non-aggressors.”

Source: Labor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable

“Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even violence.”

Ifs Believe Sometimes I Believe Wonder Violence Admire Aggression

Author:Fred Rogers

“Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by all; there is typically a fringe of dissidents. With very rare exceptions - in fact, it's hard to think of any - they suffer in one or another way; how depends on the nature of the society.”

Thinking Way Hard Facts Suffering Violence Depends Standards Injustice Oppression Exception Aggression Another Way Fringe Dissidents

Author:Noam Chomsky

“On the question of women's sexual freedom or female independence, there are still issues that haven't been worked out. There's an aura of traditional gender roles that is not talked about that really permeates these conversations. There is this vacillation between a desire for independence and having the kinds of sexual freedom that men have and, on the other side, issues about female vulnerability and susceptibility to male aggression and violence. We need more honesty about the actual conditions in which sex is happening.”

“I do fear that global capitalism is making us more like each other in regrettable ways, e.g., more people are increasingly captivated by spectacles of violence and aggression or of conspicuous consumption that are the subjects of the most commercially viable films across countries precisely because they don't depend for their appeal on cultural fine points; and more people are prone to deal with others on a purely instrumental and impersonal basis.”

People Country Film Violence Capitalism Aggression Spectacles

Author:David Wong

“Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.”

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: