Showing posts with label anger. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anger. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.” ― Marcus Aurelius

“How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.”

Marcus Aurelius

“The best fighter is never angry.” ― Lao Tzu

“The best fighter is never angry.”

Lao Tzu

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.” ― William Arthur Ward

“It is wise to direct your anger towards problems -- not people; to focus your energies on answers -- not excuses.”

William Arthur Ward

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” ― Sigmund Freud

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”

Sigmund Freud

“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate” ― Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”

Richelle Mead, Last Sacrifice

“Anger does not make history. Power does....

“Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.”

George Friedman, The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century

“Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.” ― Alain de Botton

“Bitterness: anger that forgot where it came from.”

Alain de Botton

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.” ― Sigmund Freud

“Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.”
Sigmund Freud

(1901) William Hooper Councill’s Letter to the White People of Alabama

  Most scholars of today imagine Booker T. Washington as the major accommodationist and black political conservative of the era.  There we...