quotations about aggression
Although something in us tells us we need to arm for a fight, another part of us knows that in the long run aggression is simply going to contribute to the whole problem.
DOMYO BURK
"The Buddhist's Powerful Political Response: The Middle Way between Anger and Resignation", Patheos, March 8, 2016
Let's start with the way men reportedly police women's speech in tech offices. 84 percent of women were told that they were too "aggressive," which, if you don't get why that's sexist, just imagine a man being called aggressive and it not being a compliment.
CALEB PHERSHAN
"60% Of Women In Tech Are Sexually Harassed (And More Numbers To Make You Throw Up)", sfist, January 12, 2016
Evolutionary theories, including sociobiology, account for aggression by noting that those most aggressive have an increased likelihood of getting food and mating. Hence the aggressive survive and aggressive genes get passed on to succeeding generations. That is, inasmuch as aggression is a strategy that "works" to perpetuate the genetic pool, it is part of the behavioral repertoire of organisms.
BERNARD WEINER
Human Motivation
I think if you want to succeed, you need to have that attitude, that aggression to excel.
SANIA MIRZA
"Aggression is necessary to excel", The Times of India, November 4, 2015
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
BENJAMIN TUCKER
Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890