“The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night”
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Angry Quotes — page 219 of 1190
“Fools you are. To say you learn by your experience. I prefer to profit by others' mistakes and avoid the price of my own.”
“Not even the King himself has the right to subordinate the interests of his country to his own feelings of love or hatred towards strangers; he is, however, responsible towards God and not to me if he does so, and therefore on this point I am silent.”
“The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.”
“There are so many different kinds of people in America, with so many different boiling points, that we don't know how to fight with each other. The set piece that shapes and contains quarrels in homogeneous countries does not exist here. The Frenchman is an expert on the precise gradations of espèce de and the Italian knows exactly when to introduce the subject of his other's grave, but no American can be sure how or when another will react, so we zap each other with friendliness to neutralize potentially dangerous situations.”
“Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.”
“What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.”
“I cannot watch the city of Chicago be destroyed by petty politics and bad government.”
“To be selfish, greedy and unwilling to help the needy gives rise to future starvation and clothlessness.”
“Destroy the man of wicked thoughts, Like a bamboo-tree with its fruit.”
“It is best if we do not listen to or look at the person whom we consider to be the cause of our anger. Like a fireman, we have to pour water on the blaze first and not waste time looking for the one who set the house on fire. "Breathing in, I know that I am angry. Breathing out, I know that I must put all my energy into caring for my anger." So we avoid thinking about the other person, and we refrain from doing or saying anything as long as our anger persists. If we put all our mind into observing our anger, we will avoid doing any damage that we may regret later.”
“Nothing so consumes a person as meaningless exertion”
“My job is to stop Britain from going red.”
“It's very demeaning that we have to put on a show to prove that we know how to put on a show.”
“You have debased my child....You have made him a laughingstock of intelligence...a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere.”
“One day, to everyone’s astonishment, someone drops a match in the powder keg and everything blows up.”
“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.”
“Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.”
“An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.”
“The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other in opposite directions.”