Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Our aggression is a deep instinct which survives in all kinds of manifestations in modern man.
Aggression is inherently destructive of relationships. People and ideologies are pitted against each other, believing that in order to survive, they must destroy the opposition.
There is indeed the possibility that the evolutionary process has, in gray antiquity, bred into us an excess of aggression.
But does that mean that war and violence are inevitable? I would argue not because we have also evolved this amazingly sophisticated intellect, and we are capable of controlling our innate behavior a lot of the time.
The world is not violent. But there is a lot of violence in it.
We have got to be a hell of a lot more aggressive.
The tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man... it constitutes the powerful obstacle to culture.
I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.
No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.
We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.