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“I am not [...] asserting that humans are either genial or aggressive by inborn biological necessity. Obviously, both kindness and violence lie within the bounds of our nature because we perpetrate both, in spades. I only advance a structural claim that social stability rules nearly all the time and must be based on an overwhelmingly predominant (but tragically ignored) frequency of genial acts, and that geniality is therefore our usual and preferred response nearly all the time. [...] [T]he center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.”

Humans Lying Social Kindness Violence Human Nature Thousand Ten Ordinary Claims Response Bounds Stability Aggressive Usual Rooted Ignored Frequency Acts Of Kindness Spades Geniality

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“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

“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.”

“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

“Research has convincingly demonstrated that using the "rod" creates children who are not more obedient but who are instead simplymore angry and aggressive than other kids. Parents who routinely slap or strike their children are actually handing them a model of violence to imitate--and many do indeed grow to be abusive, some even murderously so.”

Children Kids Grows Parent Violence Discipline Models Research Angry Strikes Aggressive Obedient Slap Abusive

Author:Julius Segal

“I don't think there's any way that war can have a place in peace. I think that peace is the active and difficult resistance to the temptation of war; it is the prerogative and the obligation of the injured. Peace is something that has to be vigilantly maintained; it is a vigilance, and it involves temptation, and it does not mean we as human beings are not aggressive. This is a mistaken way of understanding non-violence.”

Thinking Way Humans Mean Doe War Difficult Understanding Human Beings Violence Active Obligation Resistance Temptation Aggressive Mistaken Injured Non Violence Vigilance Prerogative

Author:Judith Butler

“In football, you're taught to react by being aggressive, taught to react with violence. If you can't separate that on the field and off the field, you're going to be in a lot of trouble in your life.”

Ifs Violence Trouble Fields Football Taught Aggressive And Off

Author:Troy Polamalu

“The 1980's witnessed a new dance genre in New York City and Los Angeles. Slam Dancing was perhaps a way for adolescent males to deal with the stressors of maturation, aggressive personal feelings, and violence in the society at large. Through dancing, the youths expressed raw power and rage while achieving euphoria, enhanced self-concept, and a healthy fatigue.”

Source: Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress