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Nonviolence does not necessarily emerge from a pacific or calm part of the soul. Very often it is an expression of rage, indignation, and aggression.
Judith Butlerborn 1956The Force of Nonviolence (2020), Introduction, p. 21
- War & Peace
Off with her head!
Lewis Carroll1832–1898Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Chapter VIIIIn context
- Comedy
The world is not destroyed by villains and conflagrations, but by hate and malice and all this spiteful tattling.
Anton Chekhov1860–1904Uncle Vanya (1897), Act II, spoken by HelenaIn context
- Good & Evil
When, O Catiline, do you mean to cease abusing our patience? How long is that madness of yours still to mock us? When is there to be an end of that unbridled audacity of yours, swaggering about as it does now?
Cicero107–43 BCThe First Oration Against Catiline (63 BC)
- Politics
I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
FCFrank Moore Colby1865–1925
Many people lose their tempers merely from seeing you keep yours.
FCFrank Moore Colby1865–1925
Anger as soon as fed is dead. ‘Tis starving makes it fat.
Emily Dickinson1830–1886Mine Enemy is growing old (B)
Hatred is blind, rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume Two, Chapter 35In context
- Justice
Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love…
George Eliot1819–1880The Mill on the Floss (1860), Book I, ch. xIn context
- Envy
- Love
It is my lot to wake with anger every morning, to lie down at night even angrier.
Harlan Ellison1934–2018Shatterday (1980), Introduction: Mortal Dreads (p. xviii)
Yea, I know to what bad things
I go, but louder than all thought doth cry
Anger, which maketh man’s worst misery.
Euripides481–407 BCMedea (431 BC), Part 2, spoken by MedeaIn context
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s Almanack
Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.
Thomas Fuller1608–1661Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi1917–1984Press conference, New Delhi (October 19, 1971), quoted in “Indian and Pakistani Armies Confront Each Other Along Borders” by Sydney H. Schanberg, The New York Times (October 20, 1971), page 6C.
I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world.
Mahatma Gandhi1869–1948Young India (15 September 1920), reprinted in Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 21 (electronic edition), p. 252.