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  • The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war.

    Strong   Military   War  
    "The uncommon wisdom of Ronald Reagan: a portrait in his own words".
  • Thanks to the Internet, I think, a lot of hate has moved to more anonymous venues. A lot of people get their aggression out that way. Or they do some drive-by hating—you know, where they’re in a car and they yell something stupid out the window at a stoplight and then take off. It’s just not as involved and laborious to be a hater as it used to be. There’s not as much face-to-face interaction. Facebook’s made ’em lazy.

    Hate   Stupid   Thinking  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • The truth is often a terrible weapon of aggression. It is possible to lie, and even to murder, with the truth.

    Truth   Lying   Reality  
    Problems of Neurosis (1929) ch. 2
  • Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

    Hans Kung (1998). “A Global Ethic for Global Politics and Economics”, p.143, Oxford University Press
  • This should be a true peace, which leads to the end of occupation and aggression, to the return of refugees to their homes, to the destruction of the dividing wall, and the establishment of a political status for East Jerusalem.

    Wall   Home   Political  
  • There is an association between the number of hours that the television is on at home and early childhood aggression.

  • A fundamental reason why Britain was not torn apart by civil war after 1688 was that its inhabitants' aggression was channelled so regularly and so remorsely into war and imperial expansion abroad.

    Linda Colley (2005). “Britons: Forging the Nation, 1707-1837”, p.53, Yale University Press
  • This is a time that calls for extreme restraint. In a world of outright aggression and violence there can be no winners. To respond to violence with counter-violence only throws oil on the fire.

    Time   Fire   Oil  
  • The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

    Believe   Wmd   Iraq  
  • I was aggressive but I played the game because I loved and enjoyed it. I might have hurt people and I got hurt myself a few times, but not with any malice. When I went on to the field I just wanted to play football. I didn't go out to kick anybody purposely. I just enjoyed playing and if that's aggression, then I'm guilty of that.

    Soccer   Football   Hurt  
  • My own feeling is that one should refuse to participate in any activity that implements American aggression - thus tax refusal, draft refusal, avoidance of work that can be used by the agencies of militarism and repression, all seem to me essential.

  • This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees.

    War   Ignorance   Rights  
    Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
  • Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.

  • History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster.

    Strong   War   Believe  
    United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”
  • The utopian male concept which is the premise of male pornography is this--since manhood is established and confirmed over and against the brutalized bodies of women, men need not aggress against each other; in other words, women absorb male aggression so that men are safe from it.

    Men   Males   Needs  
  • I don't think aggression works like thirst or sleep. I think aggression is more elicited by particular situations. I think it can be mitigated.

  • History demonstrates that previous military drawdowns invited aggression by our enemies. After World War I, America drew down forces until the U.S. Army had fewer than 100,000 men in uniform. That weakness invited Nazi aggression in Europe and the imperial Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor.

    Military   War   Army  
  • The new atheism as an old atheism, except it's much more aggressive. The new atheism wants to destroy religion. That's a very different thing. The arguments are not new, it's the aggression that's new.

    Source: www.christiantelegraph.com
  • Education, which should be helping youth to understand and adapt to their revolutionary new environments, is instead being used merely as an instrument of cultural aggression.

  • There is no western concern for issues of aggression, atrocities, human rights abuses and so on if there's a profit to be made from them

    Rights   Issues   Abuse  
  • There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

    Success   Winning   Men  
    Gertrude Stein (2012). “Selected Writings of Gertrude Stein”, p.277, Vintage
  • Israel cannot continue to exist in an atmosphere of peace and tranquillity without threats and aggression. If this regime stays on one inch of Palestine’s soil, it will continue its threats.

  • The continuous disasters of man's history are mainly due to his excessive capacity and urge to become identified with a tribe, nation, church or cause, and to espouse its credo uncritically and enthusiastically, even if its tenets are contrary to reason, devoid of self-interest and detrimental to the claims of self-preservation.We are thus driven to the unfashionable conclusion that the trouble with our species is not an excess of aggression, but an excess capacity for fanatical devotion.

    Men   Self   Church  
  • Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

    Powerful   Yield   Demand  
    Marshall McLuhan, Matie Molinaro, Corinne McLuhan, William Toye (1987). “Letters of Marshall McLuhan”, Oxford University Press, USA
  • If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

  • I am not one of these people that believes that Russia is doomed, or somehow, you know, inevitably disposed to act according to its worst traditions. But all the more reason, therefore, to resist their aggression and take it seriously.

    Believe   Russia   People  
    Source: www.politico.com
  • This aggression will not stand. With these words, George Bush committed the United States to the liberation of the oil-rich Kingdom of Kuwait, after it had been occupied by the Republic of Iraq in August of 1990.

    August   Kuwait   Oil  
  • If you and I go into a store to rob it, and I say "shoot," that's not protected. Like all judicial decisions and legislation, this leaves plenty of gray areas, including many of great significance that are rarely discussed: advocacy of imminent war crimes, such as aggression, for example. I think we would all agree that such speech should be protected, despite the often horrific consequences, but it's worth noting that that stretches the doctrine to its limits.

    War   Thinking   Decision  
    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • In the deeper layers of the modern consciousnessevery attempt to succeed is an act of aggression, leaving one alone and guilty and defenseless among enemies: one is punished for success. This is our intolerable dilemma: that failure is a kind of death and success is evil and dangerous, is--ultimately--impossible.

    Success   Evil   Leaving  
  • Israel has to accommodate the Palestinian demands and aspirations for ending occupation and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. That is the only answer. The Israeli aggression on Gaza does not bring peace to Israel. We know that. We want end of occupation.

    Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com
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