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Grief and disappointment give rise to anger, anger to envy, envy to malice, and malice to grief again, till the whole circle be completed.
David Hume1711–1776A Treatise of Human Nature (1739-40), Book 2: Of the passions, Part 1, Section 4
- Envy
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.
Malcolm X1925–1965Malcolm X Speaks (1965)
- Change
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
We are most likely to get angry and excited in our opposition to some idea when we ourselves are not quite certain of our own position, and are inwardly tempted to take the other side.
Thomas Mann1875–1955Buddenbrooks [Buddenbrooks: Verfall einer Familie, Roman] (1901). Pt 8, Ch. 2
- Ideas
We can no longer afford to worship the god of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation.
Martin Luther King Jr.1929–1968Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence (1967)
There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.
Patrick Rothfussborn 1973The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)
- Fear
Go no further down the road of hatred.
Virgil70–19 BCAeneid (29–19 BC), Book XII, Line 938 (tr. Robert Fagles); Turnus asking Aeneas for mercy.
My anger has meant pain to me but it has also meant survival, and before I give it up I’m going to be sure that there is something at least as powerful to replace it on the road to clarity.
Audre Lorde1934–1992Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984), “The Uses of Anger: Women Responding to Racism”
Rage is for beasts, but shining peace for man.
Ovid43 BC–AD 17Ars Amatoria (The Art of Love), Book III, line 502 (tr. Len Krisak)
Anger narrowed the vision and made for foolish choices.
Robert Jordan1948–2007New Spring (January 2004), Chapter 1: The Hook
- Decisions
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)
However disagreeable a situation is to you, you cannot get rid of it by indignation.
E. W. Howe1853–1937E.W. Howe’s Monthly January, 1912.
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me.
Zora Neale Hurston1891–1960“How It Feels to Be Colored Me” (1928)
- Race
Now the world in general doesn’t know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.
W. Somerset Maugham1874–1965Great Novelists and Their Novels (1948)
- Ideas
I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.
Louisa May Alcott1832–1888Little Women (1868), Ch. 8: Jo Meets ApollyonIn context