"If you listen to 'The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,' by Gil Scott-Heron, that album is dripping with rage."
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"When one is transported by rage, it is best to observe attentively the effects on those who deliver themselves over to the same passion."
"The only way I've been able to stay informed without letting fury rule my life is to channel my rage into something that ultimately feels like love to me. The place I do that the best is in my writing. That's where I feel like I can tap into the power of story and maybe bring something good into the world."
"Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage."
"All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage."
"Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely."
"Anger is useful only to a certain point. After that, it becomes rage, and rage will make you careless."
"Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt."
"The full potentialities of human fury cannot be reached until a friend of both parties tactfully intervenes."
"When I was growing up there was a product made by Sony called the Sony Walkman - a rage, everyone had to have one. Well, you don't hear about the Walkman anymore."
"We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage."
"... reason accepts no commandments."
"While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed."
"His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted."
"Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men."
"Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever."
"Put all your rage and madness into your work and live as orderly a life as possible."
"Demosthenes told Phocion, "The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage." "And you," said he, "if they are once in their senses.""
"Rage, rage against the dying light"
"There is a law in each well-ordered nation To curb those raging appetites that are Most disobedient and refractory."