Quotes of Fury - somelinesforyou

“ I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath. ”

- Bible

“ Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head. Tthis world is ruled by violence, but I guess that's better left unsaid. ”

- Bob Dylan

“ Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned. ”

- William Congreve

“ Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things. ”

- Denis Diderot

“ The state calls its own violence law, but that of the individual crime. ”

- Max Stirner

“ Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. ”

- Howard Tayler

“ In wildness is the preservation of the world. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. ”

- Plutarch

“ It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad masters. ”

- Aesop

“ In violence, we forget who we are. ”

- Mary McCarthy

“ The drops of rain make a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling. ”

- Lucretius

“ Nonviolence doesn't always work — but violence never does. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ Violence and smut are of course everywhere on the airwaves. You cannot turn on your television without seeing them, although sometimes you have to hunt around. ”

- Dave Barry

“ There is a violence that liberates, and a violence that enslaves; there is a violence that is moral and a violence that is immoral. ”

- Benito Mussolini

“ One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good. ”

- H.G. Wells

“ All conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see and fondle, and when enough have seen and fondled, there is no wilderness left to cherish. ”

- Aldo Leopold

“ For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and cant. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ Terrorism is not an expression of rage. Terrorism is a political weapon. Remove a government's facade of infallibility, and you remove its people's faith. ”

- Dan Brown

“ What frenzy dictates, jealousy believes. ”

- John Gay

“ Only thought which does violence to itself is hard enough to shatter myth. ”

- Theodor W. Adorno

“ There is no justification for present existence other than its expansion into an indefinitely open future. ”

- Simone De Beauvoir

“ Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm. ”

- Robert Burns

“ I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct. ”

- Isaac Asimov

“ The blade itself incites to deeds of violence. ”

- Homer

“ For all who draw the sword will die by the sword. ”

- Bible

“ The LORD examines the righteous,but the wicked, those who love violence,he hates with a passion. ”

- Bible

“ Grieved at his heart, when looking down he sawThe whole earth filled with violence; and all fleshCorrupting each their way. ”

- John Milton
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