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Quotes About Anger

Gratitude works its magic by serving as an antidote to negative emotions. It's like white blood cells for the soul, protecting us from cynicism, entitlement, anger, and resignation.
~ Arianna Huffington
You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.
~ Ariel Dorfman
I don't know what prevents me from roasting you with this torch.
~ Aristophanes
Anyone can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
~ Aristotle
It is easy to fly into a passion - anybody can do that - but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time with the right object and in the right way - that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it
~ Aristotle
Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not.
~ Aristotle
He overcomes a stout enemy who overcomes his own anger.
~ Aristotle
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
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
Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.
~ Arlene J. Chai
Watch it...people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease...all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer.
~ Arlene J. Chai
Local waterways had long been contaminated from many sources. But in 1987, the state at last issued a seafood advisory for Bayou d'Inde, the Calcasieu Ship Channel, and the estuary to the Gulf of Mexico. ... From net to plate—fishermen, grocery stores, trucking companies, and restaurant workers—all were furious at the government officials who had declared the seafood advisory.
~ Arlie Russell Hochschild
I'm sure there are better people out there who don't hold grudges. People who can rise above the petty hurts and forgive and forget when they've been slighted or angered. I'm not one of them.
~ Armand Rosamilia
When they took him out and led him toward the moat, he passed in front of the portraits of Fidel and Raúl Castro. He paused a moment and then exclaimed, "And to think that because of those two wretches there are about to be five orphans!" Angrily, he turned toward Lieutenant Manolito, head of the prison, and said to him, "Come on. Let's get this over with.
~ Armando Valladares
We don't have an anger problem in American politics. We have a contempt problem. . . . If you listen to how people talk to each other in political life today, you notice it is with pure contempt. When somebody around you treats you with contempt, you never quite forget it. So if we want to solve the problem of polarization today, we have to solve the contempt problem.
~ Arthur C Brooks
We don't have an anger problem in American politics. We have a contempt problem. . . . If you listen to how people talk to each other in political life today, you notice it is with pure contempt. When somebody around you treats you with contempt, you never quite forget it. So if we want to solve the problem of polarization today, we have to solve the contempt problem.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
The righteous anger of an authoritative leader doesn't cast anyone into outer darkness. It always promises to be forgotten when things are set right, because authoritative leaders have no permanent enemies and are capable of love for all. Authoritative leaders can get angry, but they are still nice people.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
Conquer anger through gentleness, unkindness through kindness, greed through generosity, and falsehood by truth.
~ Arthur C. Brooks
There's a lot of anger in 'Queen of Denmark,' and that's me getting political.
~ John Grant
Some Americans question Donald Trump's legitimacy as president. Others are angry any questioning occurs. Let's not forget that one of Donald Trump's claims to fame was precisely such questioning. He openly doubted the legitimacy - more than that, the citizenship - of President Barack Obama.
~ Ana Navarro
I get angry real quick, but I also cool down just as fast. Albanians don't want to deal with anything in the moment.
~ Action Bronson
He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
~ Haile Gebrselassie
I get mad quick and and go off at the handle quick.
~ Ja Rule
The quickest way to defuse fear or insecurity or anger is usually humor. I think comics figure that out quickly, and, once you figure it out, you think, 'Hey, if I can do this and get paid, that would be kind of cool.'
~ Billy Gardell