“People are eager to comment on something when they themselves are not in the situation of doing it.”
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Angry Quotes — page 39 of 1190
“Spare your breath to cool your porridge.”
“A silly idea is current that good people do not know what temptation means. This is an obvious lie. Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is... A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later. That is why bad people, in one sense, know very little about badness. They have lived a sheltered life by always giving in.”
“Nothing is more shameful than attacking sleeping children.”
“But this is the great danger America faces. That we will cease to be one nation and become instead a collection of interest groups: city against suburb, region against region, individual against individual. Each seeking to satisfy private wants.”
“Most people are so hard to please that if they met God, they'd probably say yes, she's great, but.”
“There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.”
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
“Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.”
“Do not spread the compost on the weeds.”
“The problem is not to find the answer, it's to face the answer”
“Everything government touches turns to crap.”
“It’s just unconscionable that America has become so stupid.”
“Advertising is legalized lying.”
“Don't let anybody walk through your mind with dirty feet.”
“If you're a Black artist, you could paint a wall of smiley faces, and someone will still ask you, 'Why are you so angry?'”
“He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights... it had to be some silly little Communist.”
“Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies.”
“To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals.”
“I came back to Louisville after the Olympics with my shiny gold medal. Went into a luncheonette where black folks couldn't eat. Thought I'd put them on the spot. I sat down and asked for a meal. The Olympic champion wearing his gold medal. They said, "We don't serve niggers here." I said, "That's okay, I don't eat 'em." But they put me out in the street. So I went down to the river, the Ohio River, and threw my gold medal in it.”