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when the revolt began, Luther nevertheless exhorted the peasants to desist from rebellion; and when they did not, he wrote a scorching tract – ‘Against the Murderous and Thieving Hordes of Peasants’ – in which he encouraged the legal authorities to slaughter the rebels without pity.
David Bentley Hart • The Story of Christianity
When challenged, aggressive-patterned people will challenge back; when attacked, they will counter-attack. And they will not just meet you, tit for tat. They will up the ante. They will increase their energy, size, and scariness.
Steven Kessler • The 5 Personality Patterns: Your Guide to Understanding Yourself and Others and Developing Emotional Maturity
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Vanessa Codaccioni • Répression: L'État face aux contestations politiques (Petite encyclopédie critique) (French Edition)
frustration and aggression go hand in hand.
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
This doesn’t mean we don’t take action in a situation-often we do. But we don’t do it in anger; we just face the facts of the situation.
“It has long been true,” he began, “that the greatest obstacle to the success of democratic socialism in the United States has been the extremism of some of its allies. Nothing could have exemplified this unfortunate fact more clearly than my colleague’s speech tonight. The propensity to damage the progressive cause by calling for the physical exte
... See moreJeffrey Archer • Kane and Abel
the immune response “is called into action by alarm signals from injured tissues, rather than by the recognition of nonself.”
Raj Patel • Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
The fact that he was not arrested sooner was due to his itinerant style, and to his concentration on villages rather than major cities, not to anything bland or unprovocative about the content of his message.
N. T. Wright • Jesus Victory of God V2: Christian Origins And The Question Of God
Why do athletes talk trash to each other? Why do they deliberately say offensive and nasty things to their competitors when the refs aren’t looking? To provoke a reaction. Distracting and angering opponents is an easy way to knock them off their game.