Rage Quotes - Page 5

• The aim of those who try to control thought is always the same. They find one single explanation of the world, one system of thought and action that will (they believe) cover everything; and then they try to impose that on all thinking people.

  Gilbert Highet

  Fear, Believe, Thinking

  Gilbert Highet (1954). “Man's Unconquerable Mind”, p.57, Columbia University Press

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• The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

  Adolf Hitler

  Fear, Military, Historical

  Adolf Hitler, General Press (2016). “Mein Kampf: (My Struggle)”, p.95, GENERAL PRESS

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• No one holds command over me.
  No Man. No God.
  No King. No Prince.
  What is a claim of age?
  For ones who are immortal
  What is a claim of power?
  For ones who defy death
  Call your damnable hunt.
  And we shall see
  Whom I drag screaming to hell with me.

  Unknown

  Fear, Men, Atheism

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• Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

  Horace

  Beautiful, Fear, Views

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• My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken.

  Jewel

  Fear, Hands, Broken

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• Misery motivates, not utopia.

  Karl Marx

  Fear, Atheism, Misery

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• It's a tricky time because people are going after the wrong people, too. There's a misplaced rage and aggression, that as a person in a public position you almost feel like you have to be perfect now when you express yourself. It feels almost unfortunate.

  Sarah Jessica Parker

  People, Perfect, Like You

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• Nothing is more tedious than the dreaming platitude.

  Karl Marx

  Dream, Fear, Atheism

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• There comes a time in every man's life when he's consumed by the desire to spit on his palms, hoist the black flag and start cutting throats.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Cutting, Men

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• When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Passion, People

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.3, Psychology Press

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• Why should I live? Why should I do anything? Is there in life any purpose which the inevitable death that awaits me does not undo and destroy?

  Leo Tolstoy

  Fear, Inevitable Death, Atheism

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• When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

  Edward Abbey

  Fear, Common Sense, Atheism

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• ...if one thing frightens people, it is that so much happens, on earth and out in space, the reasons for which seem somehow to escape them, and they fill in the gap by putting it down to the gods.

  Lucretius

  Fear, Space, People

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.19, Psychology Press

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

  Lucretius

  Fear, Atheism, Creation

  Titus Lucretius Carus, Lucretius, C. H. Sisson (2003). “De Rerum Natura”, p.22, Psychology Press

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Atheist, Fear, Hands

  Bertrand Russell (1993). “The Quotable Bertrand Russell”

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• Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

  Mark Twain

  Religious, Fear, People

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• There is no other life; life itself is only a vision and a dream for nothing exists but space and you. If there was an all-powerful God, he would have made all good, and no bad.

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Powerful, Fear

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• Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fear, Atheism, Environment

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “An Outline of Philosophy”, p.31, Routledge

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• The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are time pressures, work demands or economic anxieties.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Fear, Creating, Anxiety

  "Best of the Century" by Albert Ellis, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1999.

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• ... reason accepts no commandments.

  Ayn Rand

  Fear, Atheism, Reason

  Ayn Rand (1963). “For the New Intellectual: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand (50th Anniversary Edition)”, p.103, Penguin

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• I believe that in your heart you already know something is profoundly wrong. When bartenders are responsible for drunk drivers' acts, and gunmakers are responsible for criminals' acts, and nobody is responsible for O. J. Simpson's acts, something is wrong.

  Charlton Heston

  Fear, Believe, Heart

  "Truth And Consequences". Speech to the Yale University Political Union, www.varmintal.com. April 16, 1999.

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• Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Fear, Men, Atheism

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.54, Knopf

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• The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.

  Steven Pinker

  Fear, Years, Brain

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• It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Fear, Real

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• Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.

  Marilyn Manson

  Fear, Here I Am, Atheism

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