“It is harder to fight against pleasure than against anger.”
Heraclitus (-535) pre-Socratic Greek philosopher
As quoted by Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics, Book II (1105a)
“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.”
Righteous Wrath, st. 2 (January 1918).
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Antisthenes (-444–-365 BC) Greek philosopher
§ 5
From Lives and Opinions of the Eminent Philosophers by Diogenes Laërtius
“How is it possible to hold such anger against something you don't believe in?”
Francine Rivers book An Echo in the Darkness
Source: An Echo in the Darkness
John Bradford (1510–1555) English Protestant Reformer and martyr
Sermon on Repentence
Context: The father is against the son, the brother against the brother: and, Lord, with what conscience!
O be thou merciful unto us, and in thine anger remember thy mercy; suffer thyself to be entreated; be reconciled unto us; nay, reconcile us unto thee. O thou God of justice, judge justly. O thou Son of God, which earnest to destroy the works of Satan, destroy his furors, now smoking, and almost set on fire in this realm. We have sinned; we have sinned: and therefore thou art angry. O be not angry for ever. Give us peace, peace, peace in the Lord. Set us to war against sin, against Satan, against our carnal desires; and give us the victory this way.
This victory we obtain by faith. This faith is not without repentance, as her gentleman usher before her: before her, I say, in discerning true faith from false faith, lip-faith, Englishmen's faith: for else it springs out of true faith.
George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
Why We Must Not Reelect President Bush (2004)
Context: War and occupation create innocent victims. We count the body bags of American soldiers; there have been more than 1000 in Iraq. The rest of the world also looks at the Iraqis who get killed daily. There have been 15 times more. Some were trying to kill our soldiers; far too many were totally innocent, including many women and children. Every innocent death helps the terrorists' cause by stirring anger against America and bringing them potential recruits.
John Holloway book Change the World Without Taking Power
Source: Change the World Without Taking Power (2002), Chapter I, "The Scream"