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I love to see
a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's
a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass.
-- Maya Angelou
1928-, African-American poet,
Writer, Performer
Does our
ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all
too interested in other people? If we attended more to
ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous
inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.
-- E. M. Cioran
1911-, Rumanian-born French
Philosopher
We, the lineal
representatives of the successful enactors of one scene of
slaughter after another, must, whatever more pacific virtues
we may also possess, still carry about with us, ready at any
moment to burst into flame, the smoldering and sinister
traits of character by means of which they lived through so
many massacres, harming others, but themselves unharmed.
-- William James
1842-1910, American
Psychologist, Professor, Author
Wolves which
batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who
immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you
have Nature, there you have her intentions, there you have
her scheme: a perpetual action and reaction, a host of
vices, a host of virtues, in one word, a perfect equilibrium
resulting from the equality of good and evil on earth.
-- Marquis De Sade
1740-1814, French Author
To knock a
thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle,
is a deep delight to the blood.
-- George Santayana
1863-1952, American
Philosopher, Poet
Aggression,
the writer's main source of energy.
-- Ted Solotaroff
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