Aggressive Tendency Quotes

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.

I like to be aggressive.

As a maternal figure, I always try to keep the flock safe, of course. But I admit, it did my heart proud to see the instant blood-lust pop into Gazzy’s blue eyes and to see little Angel automatically tense up and get into fighting stance, ready to rip someone’s head off. They were just so — so dang adorable, sometimes.

Now to me, Edith looks like something that would eat her young.

I love fighting as much as I can and as often as possible.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture.

From an early age I knew very strongly the lust to kill.