Anger and Indignation

Grow angry slowly—there’s plenty of time.

Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly—hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear.

A fanatic is someone who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing.

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him

A person's desires force him to something to reason and he berates himself and gets indignant with the part that forces him, and his spirit allies with reason as though reason and desire were at civil war.

There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into an abyss of injustice where they experience the blackness of corroding despair.

True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion.

Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

Oppression makes the wise man mad.

I will have this done, so I order it done; let my will replace reasoned judgement.

[Hitler] must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them.

Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values.

Bigotry may be roughly defined as the anger of men who have no opinions.

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

As those who believe in the visibility of ghosts can easily see them, so it is always easy to see repulsive qualities in those we despise and hate.

If you hate your enemies, you will contract such a vicious habit of mind, as by degrees will break out upon those who are your friends, or those who are indifferent to you.

Hatred is the vice of narrow souls; they feed it with all their littlenesses, and make it the pretext of base tyrannies.

What a sad era when it is easier to smash an atom than a prejudice.