- Wars spring from unseen and generally insignificant causes, the first outbreak being often but an explosion of anger.
- Thucydides on Anger
- We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.
- James McGreevey on Anger
- We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
- Mahatma Gandhi on Anger
- We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.
- Alanis Morissette on Anger
- Well, all comedy starts with anger. You get angry, and its never for a good reason, right? You know its not a good reason. And then you try and work it from there.
- Jerry Seinfeld on Anger
- What I needed most was to love and to be loved, eager to be caught. Happily I wrapped those painful bonds around me and sure enough, I would be lashed with the red-hot pokers or jealousy, by suspicions and fear, by burst of anger and quarrels.
- Saint Augustine on Anger
- What if you threw a protest and no one showed up? The lack of angst and anger and emotion is a big positive.
- Jay Alan Sekulow on Anger
- What influenced me was Tori Amos, who was unapologetic about expressing anger through music, and Sinead O'Connor. Those two in particular were really moving for me, and very inspiring, before I wrote 'Jagged Little Pill.'
- Alanis Morissette on Anger
- What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
- Richard M. Nixon on Anger
- Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
- Benjamin Franklin on Anger
- When anger rises, think of the consequences.
- When anger rushes unrestrained to action, like a hot steed, it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.
- Richard Savage on Anger
- When angry count to ten before you speak. If very angry, count to one hundred.
- Thomas Jefferson on Anger
- When angry, count to four when very angry, swear.
- Mark Twain on Anger
- When I was younger, I was terrified to express anger because it would often kick-start a horrible reaction in the men in my life. So I bit my tongue. I was left to painstakingly deal with the aftermath of my avoidance later in life, in therapy or through the lyrics of my songs.
- Alanis Morissette on Anger
- When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships, which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
- Alanis Morissette on Anger
- When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
- Margaret J. Wheatley on Anger
- When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
- When you learn that a truth is a lie, anger follows.
- Grace Slick on Anger
- When you start suppressing feelings at an early age, it hurts you down the road. Full expression of anger and pain is very important.
- Andrew Shue on Anger
- Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience.
- Eric Alterman on Anger
- Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference.
- Philip Stanhope on Anger
- Wise anger is like fire from a flint: there is great ado to get it out and when it does come, it is out again immediately.
- Edward Everett Hale on Anger
- With Stacy, it was interesting because you know he was within all this chaos, all these different lives that were so broken and so much anger and so much frustration and their skating came out of that, their different styles came out of that.
- John Robinson on Anger
- Words can be said in bitterness and anger, and often there seems to be an element of truth in the nastiness. And words don't go away, they just echo around.
- Jane Goodall on Anger
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