Fervor is the weapon of choice for the impotent.
—Frantz Fanon
Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame.
—Laurence J. Peter
"We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?
—Ray Bradbury
People with a grudge against the world are always dangerous. They seem to think life owes them something. I’ve known many who have suffered worse and been cut off from life much more… and they’ve managed to lead happy contented lives. It’s what’s in yourself that makes you happy or unhappy.
—Agatha Christie in A Murder Is Announced
You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
—Indira Gandhi
Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
—Jimmy Breslin
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
—Carl Jung
I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.
—Leslie Fiedler
If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
—John Alejandro King
Never find fault with the absent.
—Alexander Pope
If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
—Donald H. Rumsfeld
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
—Douglas Adams
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
—Edward Abbey
There are no miracles. There are no trumpets, no fanfares, no absolutions.But she sees now that there are brief moments of, if not goodness, then kindness: a thoughtful gesture, a friendly word, an absence of anger now and again.
—Christiane Buuck
The most solid advice… for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell, and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
—William Saroyan