Anger Quotes - Page 37

• We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

  James McGreevey

  Thoughtful, Government, Sight

  Farewell address to the state, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2004.

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• Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Freedom, Honor, Society

  The Neurotic's Notebook ch. 7 (1963)

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• The voice of the intelligence is soft and weak, said Freud. It is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is hissed away by hate, and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance.

  Karl A. Menninger

  Hate, Ignorance, Voice

  The Progressive, October 1955.

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• The most complete revenge is not to imitate the aggressor.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Revenge, Aggressors

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1906). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus”

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• Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.

  Pietro Aretino

  Pride, Men, Wrath

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• Meanness is incurable; it cannot be cured by old age, or by anything else.

  Aristotle

  Age, Meanness, Old Age

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• Human anger is a higher thing than what is called divine discontent. For you must be angry with something; but you can be discontented with everything.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Divine, Discontent, Higher

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• Anger is an emotion preeminently serviceable for the display of power.

  Walter Bradford Cannon

  Emotion, Display

  Walter Bradford Cannon (1929). “Bodily changes in pain, hunger, fear and rage: an account of recent researches into the function of emotional excitement”

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• In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Passion, Men, Giving

  Mahatma Gandhi (2008). “My Experiments With Truth: An Autobiography”, p.362, Jaico Publishing House

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• To behave rightly, we ourselves should never lay a hand on our servants as long as our anger lasts. Things will seem different to us when we have quieted and cooled down.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Hands, Long, Different

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Complete Essays”, p.540, Stanford University Press

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• The principal use of prudence, of self-control, is that it teaches us to be masters of our passions, and to so control and guide them that the evils which they cause are quite bearable, and that we even derive joy from them all.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Self, Evil

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• He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

  Fred Allen

  Use, Argument, Chips

  Fred Allen (2016). “Treadmill to Oblivion”, p.134, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time.

  Harry Allen Overstreet

  Positive, Fear, Hate

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• If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Forgiveness, Peace, World Suffering

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

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• Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to us than the things themselves which anger or annoy us.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Forgiveness, Annoying, Annoyance

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• Forgiving is one of the most difficult things for a human being to do, but I think it means looking at some slight you feel, putting yourself in the position of the other person, and wiping away any sort of resentment and antagonism you feel toward them. Then let that other person know that everything is perfectly friendly and normal between you.

  Jimmy Carter

  Forgiveness, Mean, Thinking

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• In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Forgiveness, Revenge, Men

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Hatred, Feelings, Politics

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• Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

  James A. Baldwin

  Argument, Rage, Difficulty

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• Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Hate, 4th Of July, Forgiving

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.95, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Powerful, Fire

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• In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Christian, Angel, Winning

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• It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Saint, Excess, Kind

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• Did he annoy me? Yes, he was like a wasp at a picnic.

  Gary Barlow

  Picnics, Annoying, Rage

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• In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.

  John Lyly

  Shadow, Substance, Arguing

  John Lyly, Leah Scragg (2003). “John Lyly: Selected Prose and Dramatic Work”, p.20, Psychology Press

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