To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury is the Art of Peace.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I understand aggressiveness in only one way: being prepared to hurt yourself, not someone else.
To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
When you fight on set, you try to not hurt anybody.
Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf.
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
When you have a fighter willing to do that, when he is seriously hurt and in pain but still fights, you've got a dangerous man on your hands.
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.
In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.
I always think that the ability to fight and defend oneself is a skill that every man should have but endeavour never to use, you know?
I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hitting them.
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