Brian Sutton-Smith Quotes

I never had a desire to hurt anybody. I have at certain times had violent urges, but I don't think I ever have hurt anybody. Tried to a couple times, but I don't think I have. Yeah, guess I have. In high school. I was dirty then. Kick 'em. I might not've hurt 'em, though, they might've just been afraid of me.

I got kicked out of a club for sticking up for my sister. And I got into a fight that was basically hair pulling and rolling around on the gym floor. The fights make me sound like a hell-raiser, but I'm not proud of them.

I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

Aggression has proven to get people in trouble, in many ways, with the champions.

I've always been a dominant and violent person.

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

I haven't physically attacked anyone in a couple of years.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

I was a very violent kid. I think movies and writing and art have been a way of channeling this.

I do have anger management issues. Not clinical. Probably no more than most people.

The last time I threw a punch was in primary school, and that was probably a slap.

I have thrown chairs, but only during football matches. Generally, I am well-behaved. I do not like to make people angry.

The Green Lanterns are very forward and very courageous, very forceful. The Red Lanterns are out of control, and they're not in their right mind because when we're angry or in rage, we say things and we do things we wouldn't normally do.

I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.

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.

I was pretty hot-tempered all through school. I remember my high school basketball coach telling me: 'Boy, if you don't learn to control that temper, you're gonna kill somebody.'

Indulge not thyself in the passion of anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

So I don't cry anymore, I just beat people up. It's a lot more fun.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Anger can be an expensive luxury.