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"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

More quotes about Anger

• "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else you are the one who gets burned."

  Buddha on Anger

• "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 on Anger

• "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured."

  Mark Twain on Anger

• "Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools."

  Albert Einstein on Anger

• "Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."

  Maya Angelou on Anger

More quotes by James McGreevey

• "I realized that my truest passion was for helping people change through faith in a higher power. That meant, for me, belonging to the church. Using my abilities to bring Christian doctrine to a postmodern world."

• "I'm on the board of a national group called Faith in America. It's designed to fight religious-based bigotry."

• "No relief was forthcoming from my then-Catholic faith, which said the practice of homosexuality was a 'mortal sin' subject to damnation."

• "To be able to love and live in freedom means to be able to make godly decisions. To make godly decisions we have to surrender our egos and all the falsity and shame that goes with it."

• "The arc of American history almost inevitably moves toward freedom. Whether it's Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation, the expansion of women's rights or, now, gay rights, I think there is an almost-inevitable march toward greater civil liberties."