Fight-or-flight Quotes

We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine. (Yochai Benkler)
Basically, in the fight-or-flight response, the objective is to get away from the source of threat. All of our muscles prepare for this escape by increasing their tension level, our heart rate and respiration increase, and our whole basic metabolic system is flooded with adrenaline. View quote
Peter A. Levine
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing. View quote
Rashida Jones