quotations about aggression
Evolutionary theories, including sociobiology, account for aggression by noting that those most aggressive have an increased likelihood of getting food and mating. Hence the aggressive survive and aggressive genes get passed on to succeeding generations. That is, inasmuch as aggression is a strategy that "works" to perpetuate the genetic pool, it is part of the behavioral repertoire of organisms.
BERNARD WEINER
Human Motivation
Aggression is necessary to deal with a hostile environment in the struggle for existence. Sexual aims could not be reached without the component of aggression. Aggression is needed in every phase of the development of the sexual instinct, and is so bound to the erotic instinct that to separate them is often difficult.
DALE B. HARRIS
The Concept of Development
Let's start with the way men reportedly police women's speech in tech offices. 84 percent of women were told that they were too "aggressive," which, if you don't get why that's sexist, just imagine a man being called aggressive and it not being a compliment.
CALEB PHERSHAN
"60% Of Women In Tech Are Sexually Harassed (And More Numbers To Make You Throw Up)", sfist, January 12, 2016
I think if you want to succeed, you need to have that attitude, that aggression to excel.
SANIA MIRZA
"Aggression is necessary to excel", The Times of India, November 4, 2015
Aggression is simply another name for government. Aggression, invasion, government, are interconvertible terms. The essence of government is control, or the attempt to control. He who attempts to control another is a governor, an aggressor, an invader; and the nature of such invasion is not changed, whether it is made by one man upon another man, after the manner of the ordinary criminal, or by one man upon all other men, after the manner of an absolute monarch, or by all other men upon one man, after the manner of a modern democracy.
BENJAMIN TUCKER
Address to Unitarian Ministers, 1890