Anger Quotes
These anger quotes are fascinating. How many times have we been told not to make an important decision when we are angry?
There is nothing wrong with getting mad. The problems usually come in when we open our mouths and start expressing our anger.
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Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
-Albert Einstein
Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.
-Alfred A. Montapert
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
-Ambrose Bierce
Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
-Aristotle
Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
-Arthur Schopenhauer
Revenge is often like biting a dog because the dog bit you.
-Austin O'Malley
Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
-Baltasar Gracian
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
-Baltasar Gracian
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
-Bede Jarrett
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.
-Buddha
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
-Cato
Somebody hits me, I'm going to hit him back. Even if it does look like he hasn't eaten in a while.
-Charles Barkley
A man who has never made a woman angry is a failure in life.
-Christopher Morley
Get mad, then get over it.
-Colin Powell
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
-Confucius
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
-Daniel Webster
He who angers you conquers you.
-Elizabeth Kenny
Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.
-Francis Bacon
A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.
-Francis Bacon
How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
-Frank Herbert
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody, in particular, to be angry at.
-Frank Moore Colby
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.
-George Eliot
No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
-George Jean Nathan
The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
-Daniel Webster
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
-Dwight D. Eisenhower
The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that man may become a robot.
-Erich Fromm
Perhaps in time, the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own.
-Georg C. Lichtenberg
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice.
-George Orwell
Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything.
-Herb Caen
We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
-Hillary Clinton
Society is based on the assumption that everyone is alike and no one is alive.
-Hugh Kingsmill
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
-Irv Kupcinet
Marriage cannot be severed from its cultural, religious, and natural roots without weakening the good influence of society.
-Jack Kingston
It seems a long time since the morning mail could be called correspondence.
-Jacques Barzun
It is good for society to have this introspection.
-Jacques Verges
The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.
-James A. Baldwin
A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.
-James Madison
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
-Jean de la Bruyere
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.
-Jiddu Krishnamurti
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
-John W. Gardner
Some people strengthen society just by being the kind of people they are.
-John W. Gardner
Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
-Kenneth L. Pike
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
-Lily Tomlin
Good-looking individuals are treated better than homely ones in virtually every social situation, from dating to trial by jury.
-Martha Beck
People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.
-Max Cannon
Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
-Mignon McLaughlin
We have a system that increasingly taxes work and subsidizes nonwork.
-Milton Friedman
The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
-Omar N. Bradley
The enemy of society is middle class and the enemy of life is middle age.
-Orson Welles
How can a society that exists on instant mashed potatoes, packaged cake mixes, frozen dinners, and instant cameras teach patience to its young?
-Paul Sweeney
Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in.
-Peter Medawar
Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
-Randolph Bourne
It is not a fragrant world.
-Raymond Chandler
An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.
-Robert A. Heinlein
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.
-Robert Frost
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
-Robert Orben
Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things.
-Russell Baker
Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.
-Thomas Szasz
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
-Thomas Szasz
Civilization is unbearable, but it is less unbearable at the top.
-Timothy Leary
Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.
-Valerie Solanas
Anger is a short madness.
-Horace
Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them.
-James Fallows
Usually, when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.
-James Russell Lowell
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
-James Thurber
He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.
-John Ruskin
Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
-Laurence J. Peter
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
-Louis L'Amour
Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.
-Lucius Annaeus Seneca
How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.
-Marcus Aurelius
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
-Mark Twain
Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
-Maya Angelou
Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts.
-Ovid
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
-Phyllis Diller
There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.
-Plato
Don't get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
-Richard M. Nixon
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
-Robert Green Ingersoll
Experts say you should never hit your children in anger. When is a good time? When you're feeling festive?
-Roseanne Barr
If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?
-Sydney J. Harris
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.
-Thomas Fuller
There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
-Thomas Fuller
When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
-Thomas Jefferson
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.
-Thomas Kempis
It is impossible for you to be angry and laugh at the same time. Anger and laughter are mutually exclusive and you have the power to choose either.
-Wayne Dyer
Expressing anger is a form of public littering.
-Willard Gaylin
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
-William Butler Yeats
Never go to bed angry, stay up and fight.
-William Congreve
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.
-William Congreve
The function of the press in society is to inform, but its role in society is to make money.
-A. J. Liebling
I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.
-A. Whitney Brown
The key to organizing an alternative society is to organize people around what they can do, and more importantly, what they want to do.
-Abbie Hoffman
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
-Adam Smith
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
In our society leaving baby with Daddy is just one step above leaving the kids to be raised by wolves or apes.
-Al Roker
Exclusiveness in a garden is a mistake as great as it is in society.
-Alfred Austin
One of the definitions of sanity is the ability to tell real from unreal. Soon we'll need a new definition.
-Alvin Toffler
The human race's prospects of survival were considerably better when we were defenceless against tigers than they are today when we have become defenceless against ourselves.
-Arnold J. Toynbee
You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.
-Art Buchwald
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
-Barbara Jordan
Man is the animal that intends to shoot himself out into interplanetary space, after having given up on the problem of an efficient way to get himself five miles to work and back each day.
-Bill Vaughan
Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
-Bill Vaughan
I think this society suffers so much from too much freedom, too many rights that allow people to be irresponsible.
-Boyd Rice
Neither the life of an individual nor the history of a society can be understood without understanding both.
-A. Wright Mills
Women with money and women in power are two uncomfortable ideas in our society.
-Candace Bushnell
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
-Carl Sandburg
Society is the union of men and not the men themselves.
-Charles de Secondat
To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.
-Charles Edwards
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also.
-Charles Horton Cooley
You can find your way across this country using burger joints the way a navigator uses stars.
-Charles Kuralt
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