Noam Chomsky on aggression
Noam Chomsky148 quotes“Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.”
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Sailor MalanSailor Malan I’m tall and smart. If you’re aggressive and energetic it can be intimidating for people who aren’t very smart themselves.
Julia RobertsJulia Roberts Violence is the tool of the barbarian; aggression is the method of the primitive; bloodshed is the way of the savage; cruelty is the manner of the brutish! To be called as a ‘civilised,’ man must be peaceable!
Mehmet Murat IldanMehmet Murat Ildan If it’s a woman it’s caustic, if it’s a man it’s authority, If it’s a woman it’s too pushy, if it’s a man it’s aggressive in the best sense of the word.
Barbara WaltersBarbara Walters My message to you is: build up physical strength not for aggression, not for militarism, but for becoming fighting fit, all your life and all the time in every walk of life of your nation wherever you be and always to be a force for peace, international amity and goodwill.
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