Rather Quote by Bret Stephens

... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences.

— George Eliot

“Anger and fear are disabling trait behaviours, instilled in the opponent with care.”

— Moonn Tzu

“But aggression, righteous condemnation, and insult only make matters worse. Somehow we have to break the escalating cycle of attack and counterattack.”

— Karen Armstrong

A brave man scorns to quarrel once a day; Like Hectors in at every petty fray.

— John Dryden

“When anger is repressed by reason of inability to do immediate harm, it retires into the heart in the form of malice and breeds…

— John Wortabet

“Severe punishment unquestionably has an immediate effect in reducing a tendency to act in a given way. This result is no doubt responsible for…

— B.F. Skinner

If there is one clear lesson of our century, it is this: where aggression is tolerated, it multiplies.

— Bob Dole

“Those who have anger try to subdue others with the heat of anger, and those who do not have anger are able to subdue…

— Dada Bhagwan

The anger and the brutality against everything can readily from one hour to the next be transformed into its opposite.

— Thomas Bernhard

“The first principal of non-violent action is that of non-cooperation with everything humiliating.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

“My heart goes out to some of those rather hostile yet highly intelligent individuals who may see problems really because they have solutions. That…

— Criss Jami

Political agitation, by the passions it arouses or the convictions it engenders, may in fact stimulate men to the violation of the law. Detestation…

— Learned Hand