Anger Quotes - Page 26

• Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Animal, Blood, Gentleman

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons.

  Aristotle

  Way, Fool, Should

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1777, Princeton University Press

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• Anger is poison. You must purge it from your mind or else it will corrupt your better nature.

  Christopher Paolini

  Mind, Poison, Management

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• Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

  David Levithan

  Feelings, Left Alone, Left

  David Levithan (2012). “Six Earlier Days”, p.13, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

  Edward Glaeser

  Wise, Injustice, Mayors

  Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

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• Every present anger derives from past weakness.

  Glen Duncan

  Past, Weakness, Management

  Glen Duncan (2011). “The Last Werewolf (The Last Werewolf 1)”, p.31, Canongate Books

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• Atheists anger doesn't prove that we're selfish, or joyless, or miserable. It shows that we have compassion, and a sense of justice. We're angry because we see terrible harm all around us, and we feel desperately motivated to stop it.

  Greta Christina

  Atheist, Selfish, Compassion

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• This was a little house, with a ceiling that kept getting higher and higher, a hot place with no windows. This was anger.

  Helen Oyeyemi

  House, Littles, Ceilings

  Helen Oyeyemi (2007). “The Icarus Girl”, p.189, Anchor

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• A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Men, Air

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• If we all got angry together something might be done.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Together, Done, Might

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings”, p.979, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Anger should be especially kept down in punishing, because he who comes to punishment in wrath will never hold that middle course which lies between the too much and the too little. It is also true that it would be desirable that they who hold the office of Judges should be like the laws, which approach punishment not in a spirit of anger but in one of equity.

  Johannes Voet

  Lying, Law, Punishment

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• Anger only gets in the way.

  Katherine Applegate

  Way

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• When the anger is intense, the person with Asperger's syndrome may be in a 'blind rage' and unable to see the signals indicating that it would be appropriate to stop. Feelings of anger can also be in response in situations where we would expect other emotions. I have noted that sadness may be expressed as anger.

  Tony Attwood

  Sadness, Feelings, May

  Tony Attwood (2006). “The Complete Guide to Asperger's Syndrome”, p.143, Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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• So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened.

  Victor Hugo

  Voice, Mountain, Avalanches

  Victor Hugo (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Victor Hugo (Illustrated)”, p.7002, Delphi Classics

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• Anger causes us often to condemn in one what we approve in another.

  Pasquier Quesnel

  Causes, Anger Management, Management

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• When we consciously choose a core heart feeling over a negative feeling, we effectively intercept the physiological stress response that drains and damages our systems and allow the body's natural regenerative capacities to work for us. Instead of being taxed and depleted, our mental and emotional systems are renewed. As a consequence, they are better able to ward off future "energy eaters" like stress, anxiety and anger before they take hold.

  Howard Martin

  Stress, Heart, Emotional

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• Anger and folly walk cheeck by jowl.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Management, Sole, Walks

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• The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered.

  George Eliot

  Passion, Vibrations, Management

  George Eliot (1869). “Silas Marner and Scenes of Clerical Life”, p.287

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• From his proceedings in Congress, he appears demented, and his actings and doings inspire my pity more than anger.

  Andrew Jackson

  Inspire, Acting, Pity

  Andrew Jackson, David Maydole Matteson (1931). “Correspondence of Andrew Jackson: to April 30, 1814”

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• Idleness makes people feeble and peevish. Work makes them stalwart and prone to anger.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Stalwart, Idleness

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• Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Strong, Uprising, Indifference

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• You would rouse to anger a heart of stone.

  Sophocles

  Heart, Stones, Heart Of Stone

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• Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.

  Albert Camus

  Order, Europe, Solitude

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• What seems to me the highest and the most difficult achievement of Art is not to make us laugh or cry, or to rouse our lust or our anger, but to do as nature does-that is, fill us with wonderment.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Art, Laughing, Achievement

  Gustave Flaubert (1953). “Selected letters”

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• Slumism is the pent-up anger of people living on the outside of affluence. Slumism is decay of structure and deterioration of the human spirit. Slumism is a virus which spreads through the body politic. As other "isms," it breeds disorder and demagoguery and hate.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Hate, People, Affluence

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