Best Rage Quotes

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase.

To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a state of rage almost all of the time.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we’d never be done with it.

Mass civil disobedience can use rage as a constructive and creative force.

[T]he truth is you don’t need some external demon to take control of you to turn you into a raging, money-obsessed sociopath, you only need to let loose the demons you already have inside of you.

Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals.

Progress is a comfortable disease.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.

Get mad, then get over it.

Fear is the parent of cruelty, and therefore it is no wonder if cruelty and religion go hand in hand.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

When Švejk subsequently described life in the lunatic asylum, he did so in exceptionally eulogistic terms: ‘I really don’t know why those loonies get so angry when they’re kept there. You can crawl naked on the floor, howl like a jackal, rage and bite. If anyone did this anywhere on the promenade people would be astonished, but there it’s the most common or garden thing to do. There’s a freedom there which not even Socialists have ever dreamed of.

Everything we know from above [heaven], we know from down here [earth]. How can you take something like that seriously?

So there you have it: Nature is a rotten mess. But that’s only the beginning. If you take your eyes off it for one second, it will kill you. Thorns, insects, fungus, worms, birds, reptiles, wild animals, raging rivers, bottomless ravines, dry deserts, snow, quicksand, tumbleweeds, sap, and mud. Rot, poison and death. That’s Nature.It’s a wonder you even step outside of your cabin, I said.My bravery exceeds my good sense, he said.

Because rage and violence are human emotions and drives and capacities that inhabit us all. SEE CARL JUNG. Or that hipster Joseph Campbell. Because we all take archetypal journeys in a million ways – literal, symbolic, you name it – that figure, disfigure, and refigure violence.

Jewish people have put the interests of race over the interests of the American people…. Jews are filled with more hatred and rage for our race, for our heritage, for our blood than perhaps you can imagine.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

It’s what you do to yourself when you go mad with rage. You have no idea how much you can hurt yourself with your own strength.

The currents rage so deep upon us, this is the age of video violence.

To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw.

Don’t do it quickly, but don’t wait too long… If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter’s rights to our souls.

Do that which serves your cause, not that which serves your rage.

I long for the raised voice, the howl of rage or love.

You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.

One thing is made of another, and nature allows no new creation except at the price of death.

To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.

As soon as a friendship passed a certain point – some obscure and secret boundary – a woman quite automatically became overwhelmed by a raging compulsion to complicate things.

As the dead rise to live, the live sink to die, the currents are deep and raging inside.

An Eskimo custom offers an angry person release by walking the emotion out of his or her system in a straight line across the landscape; the point at which the anger is conquered is marked with a stick, bearing witness to the strength or length of the rage.

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

It’s not rage that drives me, it’s competition.

The politer the society, the greater the lies it requires.

The philistine provides the best definition of art. Anything that makes him rage is first class.