“The indiscriminate denunciation of the rich is mischievous.... No poor man was ever made richer or happier by it. It is quite as illogical to despise a man because he is rich as because he is poor. Not what a man has, but what he is, settles his class. We can not right matters by taking from one what he has honestly acquired to bestow upon another what he has not earned.”
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Angry Quotes — page 47 of 1190
“Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.”
“Asking for financial advice from a financial planner is like asking a barber if you need a hair cut.”
“She wore a short skirt and a tight sweater and her figure described a set of parabolas that could cause cardiac arrest in a yak.”
“Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.”
“I had a terrible vision: I saw an encyclopedia walk up to a polymath and open him up.”
“Pleasure is sweetest when 'tis paid for by another's pain.”
“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.”
“History has different yardsticks for the cruelty of the Northerners and the cruelty of the Southerners in the Civil War. A slave-owner who through cunning and violence shackles a slave in chains, and a slave who through cunning or violence breaks the chains – let not the contemptible eunuchs tell us that they are equals before a court of morality!”
“Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.”
“Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.”
“Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking.”
“The tongue may be employed about, and made to serve all the purposes of vice, in tempting and deceiving, in perjury and injustice.”
“I've known for a long time that they're a bunch of idiots.”
“When reason ends, then anger begins. Therefore, anger is a sign of weakness.”
“We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment.”
“No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage.”
“The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.”
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
“Perhaps one of the most important accomplishments of my administration has been minding my own business.”