Anger and Indignation

[The Republican Party] had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the twentieth century.

 

Our nation stands at a fork in the political road. In one direction lies a land of slander and scare; the land of sly innuendo, the poison pen, theanonymous phone call and hustling, pushing, shoving; the land of smash and grab andanything to win. This is Nixonland. But I say toyou that it is not America.

 

There are only two great diseases in the world today—Bolshevism and Americanism; and Americanism is the worse of the two, because Bolshevism only smashes your house or your business or your skull, but Americanism smashes your soul.

 

Vengeance imports a feeling of blame, and an opinion, however distorted by passion, that a wrong has been done. It can hardly go very far beyond the case of a harm intentionally inflicted: even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

 

To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at it and dread it beforehand, one need only give him work of an absolutely, completely useless and irrational character.

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.

There never was an idea started that woke up men out of their stupid indifference but its originator was spoken of as a crank.

We are always making God our accomplice, that so we may legalize our own iniquities. Every successful massacre is consecrated by a Te Deum, and the clergy have never been wanting in benedictions for any victorious enormity.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man’s pleasure when they come a cropper.

Savagely is necessary ever}' four or five hundred years in order to bring the world back to life. Otherwise the world would die of civilization.

The Congress will push me to raise taxes, and I'll say no, and they'll push and I'll say no, and they'll push again.

To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad.

Oh, if only I did nothing simply because of laziness.

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager." William S.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

Oh that press will have me now!

It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves.

 

Anger is the fluid that love bleeds when you cut it.

Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

 

A plague o’ both your houses!

 

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

 

Well, my daddy left home when I was three, And didn’t leave much to Ma and me, Just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze. Now I don’t blame him because he run and hid, But the meanest thing he ever did was Before he left, he went and named me Sue.

 

One by one forging his laws, to be flung Like horseshoes at the head, the eye, or the groin. And every killing is a treat For the broad-chested Ossete.