Quotation Saturday

ANGER

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
 ~Bede Jarrett

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.
~Eckhart Tolle

Get angry, get furious but never crumble to resentment.
~Dodinsky
 
Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. 
~Buddha

WAR

The release of atom power has changed everything except our way of thinking... the solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind. If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker.
~Albert Einstein

The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations. 
~David Friedman

Sometimes I think it should be a rule of war that you have to see somebody up close and get to know him before you can shoot him.
 ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything.
~H.G. Wells

VIRTUE
 
We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke strops our vice.
~Henry David Thoreau

He that has energy enough to root out a vice should go further, and try to plant a virtue in its place.
 ~Charles Caleb Colton

Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
~Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
~Edith Sitwell


TRUTH
 
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
~Aldous Huxley

I never dreamed of being Shakespeare or Goethe, and I never expected to hold the great mirror of truth up before the world; I dreamed only of being a little pocket mirror, the sort that a woman can carry in her purse; one that reflects small blemishes, and some great beauties, when held close enough to the heart.
~Peter Altenberg

The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple. ~Rebecca West

The soul that has conceived one wickedness can nurse no good thereafter.
~ SOPHOCLES, Philoctetes
 
It is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth.
~Oscar Wilde