Bob Greene Quotes

If you’re aggressive in your dealings, that’s how you’ll be regarded in the world. You might smile and give generously, but if you frequently explode in anger, people never feel comfortable in your presence and you’ll never have peace of mind.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.

Fighting is not a man's thing, it is a human thing.

Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.

I'm no longer bossy in the honest sense; I've mastered (mistressed) the art of passive-aggression.

My experience is that aggression is a universal trait in human beings - girls feel it in any sort of environment, same-sex or co-ed.

Some might argue humans are hard-wired to fight. I don't agree: we are conscious beings who have the capacity to make decisions.

Passive-aggressive is the worst thing in the world to me!

The problem is people become so angry. And they become so vicious.

Piss off Satan and don't take me for dumber than I look.

All the world does as it is supposed to, except for humans. Maybe that's why you so often want to kill each other.

I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

I've met a few people who were passive-aggressive, but I've never met anyone who was aggressive-passive. I don't want tacos! Maybe.

I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world.

Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today

This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.

Violence among all people is based on dissatisfaction, frustration and crushed ambition and people who don't know who to strike at and who to blame, and not willing to blame themselves.

Aggression, like every other part of human behavior we take for granted, is a challenging engineering problem!

Most people are only too delighted to wreck each other's heads. And for the tiny minority who do their pathetic best not to, this world is going to go right ahead and make sure they do it anyway.

The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all.

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

The worst-tempered people I've ever met were people who knew they were wrong.