“Anger is a weed; hate is the tree.”

“You can't hate the roots of a tree and not hate the tree.”

Malcolm X (1925–1965) American human rights activist

“anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate”

Richelle Mead book Last Sacrifice

“What’s true is that everyone is uncomfortable with expressing anger and being critical. Anger and criticism generates rejection. And everyone hates rejection.”

Warren Farrell (1943) author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate

“I had anger but never hate. Before the war, I was too busy studying to hate. After the war, I thought, What's the use? To hate would be to reduce myself.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

“Under the attentiveness was fear, and something else. Anger, hate—the instinctive rejection of an intolerable truth.”

Leigh Brackett (1915–1978) American novelist and screenwriter

“And yet there is an anger that purifies the heart:
The anger of the better against the baser part,
Against the false and wicked, against the tyrant's sword,
Against the enemies of love, and all that hate the Lord.”

Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933) American diplomat

“But that was a realworld, and he didn't have to put it down on paper. He ripped the page out of the book, tore it into shreds, and threw them behind the tree, where they settled into the weeds.”

Patricia Reilly Giff (1935) American children's writer

“Buddhism calls anger "corruption of the mind," Manicheism "root of the tree of death." I know this, but what good does it do me to know?”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

“Weeds don't know they're weeds.”

John Updike book Rabbit at Rest