“Those magistrates who can prevent crime, and do not, in effect encourage it.”
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Angry Quotes — page 141 of 1190
“Well the open-outcry auction is just made to turn the brain into mush: you've got social proof, the other guy is bidding, you get reciprocation tendency, you get deprival super-reaction syndrome, the thing is going away... I mean it just absolutely is designed to manipulate people into idiotic behavior.”
“It’s waiting that helps you as an investor, and a lot of people just can’t stand to wait. If you didn’t get the deferred-gratification gene, you’ve got to work very hard to overcome that.”
“Any musician who says he is playing better either on tea, the needle, or when he is juiced, is a plain, straight liar. When I get too much to drink, I can't even finger well, let alone play decent ideas. You can miss the most important years of your life, the years of possible creation.”
“The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.”
“Racism is like high blood pressure—the person who has it doesn’t know he has it until he drops over with a God damned stroke. There are no symptoms of racism. The victim of racism is in a much better position to tell you whether or not you’re a racist than you are.”
“The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.”
“The law was made for one thing alone, for the exploitation of those who don't understand it, or are prevented by naked misery from obeying it.”
“To those who does not know the world is on fire, I have nothing to say.”
“All forms of fear produce fatigue.”
“When two or more people agree on an issue, I form on the other side.”
“He who takes offense when offense was not intended is a fool, yet he who takes offense when offense is intended is an even greater fool for he has succumbed to the will of his adversary.”
“The only way I can be angry at you is when I have thought, said, or done something that is unkind in my own opinion.”
“A man can smile and smile and be a villain.”
“Islam does not mean peace. It means submission. The word "peace" for Muslims has a different meaning. Peace, according to Muslims, will be achieved when everyone submits to Islam. Muslims can't offer peace. They can offer truce. In their minds, peace will be achieved only when you are subdued and they are the masters. Any other arrangement is not Islamic.”
“When more Americans prefer freebies to freedom, these great United States will become a fertile ground for tyranny.”
“I'm bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is 'In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.'”
“But the conceited man did not hear him. Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
“A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side.”
“To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy.”