“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”
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American author and essayist 1927–1989Related quotes
“But still anger ought be far from us, for nothing is able to be done rightly nor judiciously with anger.”
Sed tamen ira procul absit, cum qua nihil recte fieri nec considerate potest.
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
Book I, section 38
De Officiis – On Duties (44 BC)
Variant: In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.
Mark Chapman (1955) American assassin
Mark Chapman explaining how he felt when he committed murder http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/2310873.stm
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax (1633–1695) English politician
Religion.
Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Reflections (1750), Political Thoughts and Reflections
G. K. Chesterton (1874–1936) English mystery novelist and Christian apologist
A Song of Defeat (1910)
Context: It is all as of old, the empty clangour,
The NOTHING scrawled on a five-foot page,
The huckster who, mocking holy anger,
Painfully paints his face with rage.
…
We that fight till the world is free,
We have no comfort in victory;
We have read each other as Cain his brother,
We know each other, these slaves and we.
“Passion looks like anger to people who aren’t passionate about anything.”
Marcus Orelias (1993) American actor, rapper, songwriter, author and entrepreneur