Quotes
Quotes about Anger
Anger as soon as fed is dead-
I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmitted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmitted into a power that can move the world.
Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Danger and delight grow on one stalk.
Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
The fetters imposed on liberty at home have ever been forged out of the weapons provided for defence against real, pretended, or imaginary dangers from abroad.
The tears of strangers are only water.
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
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.
The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedients, and by parts.
The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. . . . The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration . . . because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.
Know when to speake; for many times it brings Danger to give the best advice to kings.
It's a dangerous thing to think we know everything.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one: men know him not-and to know not is to care not for.
The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. - The House of Gold.
He who angers you conquers you.
Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.
The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.
If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?
