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"Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution."
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"My recipe for dealing with anger and frustration: set the kitchen timer for twenty minutes, cry, rant, and rave, and at the sound of the bell, simmer down and go about business as usual."
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"Sarcasm is a manifestation of anger, and anger can make you the puppet of your opponents."
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"Anger is a deception. You engage it thinking you'll feel better but ultimately it drills you deeper in the hurt."
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"Treat your anger with the utmost respect and tenderness, for it is no other than yourself."
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"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed."
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"Bosnia is under my skin. It's the place you cannot leave behind. I was obsessed by the nightmare of it all; there was this sense of guilt, and an anger that has become something much deeper over these last years."
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"It occurred to me almost constantly in the South that had I lived there I would have been an eccentric and full of anger, and I wondered what form the anger would have taken. Would I have taken up causes, or would I have simply knifed somebody?"
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"The preparation, commitment and desire to win will be no less than the last time I drove a grand prix car in anger."
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"In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves."
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"You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome,Knew you not Pompey?"
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"Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us."
Man
"Think first of the action that is right to take, think later about coping with one's fears."
Action
"Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people's minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide."
Change
"After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist - if by prisons we mean places that could be experienced by the men and women in them at all as every place that goes by that name now is bound to be experienced."
Man
"After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible."
Society
"Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution."
Anger
"The point is to change one's life. The point is not to give some vent to the emotions that have been destroying one; the point is so to act that one can master them now."
Change
"I think the only choice that will enable us to hold to our vision... is one that abandons the concept of naming enemies and adopts a concept familiar to the nonviolent tradition: naming behavior that is oppressive."
Vision
"People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations."
People
"There should be no censorship of mail."
Government
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