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see: "QUARRELS"
see: "REVENGE"
see: "TEMPER"
see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for other related links


If men would consider not so much wherein they differ,
as wherein they agree, there would be far less of
uncharitableness and angry feeling in the world.
--Joseph Addison (1672—1719)
English essayist, poet, and dramatist.

To abandon yourself to rage is often to
bring upon yourself the fault of another.
--Pope Agapetus I (?—536 A.D.)
Pope from 535-536.

When the habitually even-tempered suddenly fly into a
passion, that explosion is apt to be more impressive
than the outburst of the most violent amongst us.
--Margery Louise Allingham (1904—1966)
British detective-story novelist.
_Death of a Ghost_ [1934]

Sadly, some folks want others to feel their pain, to
hurt as much as they do -- or more. My grandmother
once told me to avoid colds and angry people whenever
I could. It's sound advice.
--Walter Anderson (1885—1962)
German folklorist,
"The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment"

Anybody can become angry--that is easy; but to
be angry with the right person, and to the right
degree, and at the right time, and for the right
purpose, and in the right way--that is not within
everybody's power and is not easy.
--Aristotle (384—322 B.C.)
Greek philosopher.

A man that does not know how to be angry
does not know how to be good.
--Henry Ward Beecher (1813—1887)
American Congregational minister;
[brother of Harriet Beecher Stowe, son of Lyman Beecher].
_Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit_ [1887]

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty,
and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.
--Bible
"Proverbs" 16:32 NKJV

Speak when you are angry and you will make
the best speech you will ever regret.
--Ambrose Bierce (1842—1914)
American newspaperman, wit, and satirist.
_The Cynic's Word Book_ [1906]
{retitled in 1911 as _The Devil's Dictionary_}

I was angry with my friend;
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow.
--William Blake (1757—1827)
English poet.
"A Poison Tree"

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 [Gautama] (c. 6th—4th century B.C.)
Founder of Buddhism.

Of the seven deadly sins, anger is possibly the most
fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over
grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the
prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to
savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain
you are given and the pain you are giving back--in
many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief
drawback is that what you are wolfing down is
yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.
--Frederick Buechner (1926— )
American Presbyterian minister and author. _Wishful Thinking_ [1971]

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Anger ventilated often hurries towards forgiveness;
anger concealed often hardens into revenge.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.


Emotion, whether of ridicule, anger, or sorrow, - whether
raised at a puppet show, a funeral, or a battle,--is your
grandest of levellers. The man who would be always
superior should be always apathetic.
--Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803—1873)
British novelist and politician.

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Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal
your energy and keep you from love.
--Leo [Felice Leonardo] Buscaglia (1925—1998)
American professor and author of inspirational books.

Bad temper is its own scourge. Few things are bitterer
than to feel bitter. A man's venom poisons himself
more than his victim.
--Charles Buxton (1823—1871)
English author.

If you are patient in one moment of anger, you
will escape a hundred days of sorrow.
--Chinese proverb.

A strong mind is one which does not lose
its balance even under the most violent
excitement.
--Karl von Clausewitz (1780—1831)
Prussian soldier and military theorist.
_On War_ [1832]

The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us
from ourselves; and we injure our own cause, in the opinion of the world, when
we too passionately and eagerly defend it; [ . . . ] Neither will all men be disposed
to view our quarrels precisely in the same light that we do; and a man's blindness
to his own defects will ever increase, in proportion as he is angry with others, or
pleased with himself.
--C.C. Colton (1780—1832)
English clergyman and writer.
_Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words;
Addressed to Those Who Think_ [1820]

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only
men of a certain income can indulge.
--George William Curtis (1824—1892)
American essayist, editor, and reformer.
_Prue and I_ [1856]

Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of
this machine called Man! Oh the little that
unhinges it: poor creatures that we are!
--Charles Dickens (1812—1870)
English novelist.
_The Chimes_, "Third Quarter"

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
--Phyllis Diller (1917— )
American comedian.
_Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints_ [1966]

Beware of the fury of a patient man.
--John Dryden (1631—1700)
English poet, critic, and dramatist.
_Absalom and Achitophel_ [1681]

To rule one's anger is well; to prevent it is still better.
--Tryon Edwards (1809—1894)
American theologian.

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We boil at different degrees.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Society and Solitude_ [1870], "Eloquence"


A man makes his inferiors his superiors by
heat. . . .Self-control is the rule.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803—1882)
American philosopher and poet.
_Letters and Social Aims_ [1876]

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Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased
by the corresponding actions; as the habit of walking,
by walking; of running, by running. If you would be a
reader, read; if a writer, write. But if you do not read
for a month together, but do something else, you will
see what will be the consequence. So after sitting
still for ten days, get up and attempt to take a long
walk, and you will find how your legs are weakened.
Upon the whole, then, whatever you would make
habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a
thing habitual, do not practice it, but habituate
yourself to something else.

It is the same with regard to the operations of the
soul. Whenever you are angry, be assured it is not
only a present evil, but that you have increased a
habit, and added fuel to a fire. When you are
overcome by the seductions of a woman, do not
consider it as a single defeat alone, but that you
have fed, that you have increased your incontinence.
For it is impossible but that the habits and facilities
must either be first produced, or strengthened and
increased, by corresponding actions. Hence the
philosophers derive the growth of all maladies.
When you once desired money, for example, if
reason be applied to produce a sense of the evil,
the desire ceases, and the governing faculty of
the mind regains its authority; whereas, if you apply
no remedy, it returns no more to its former state,
but being again similarly excitedit kindles at the
desire more quickly than before; and by frequent
repititions at last becomes callous, and by this
weakness is the love of money established. For
he who has a fever, even after it has left him, is
not in the same state of health as before, unless
he was perfectly cured; and the same thing happens
in distempers of the soul likewise. There are certain
traces and blisters left in it, which, unless they are
well effaced, whenever a new hurt is received in the
same part, instead of blisters will become sores.

If you would not be of an angry temper, then, do not
feed the habit. Give it nothing to help it increase. Be
quiet at first and reckon the days in which you have
not been angry. I used to be angry every day; now
every other day; then every third and fourth day; and
if you miss it so long as thirty days, offer a of
Thanksgiving to God. For habit is first weakened
and then entirely destroyed....

--Epictetus (55—135)
Greek philosopher.
_Discources And Enchiridion_

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Where two discourse, if the one's anger rise,
The man who lets the contest fall is wise.
--Euripides (485?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.
_Protesilaus_, fragment 656


Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.
--Euripides (485?—406 B.C.)
Greek dramatist.

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We live in an age of Wrath. It is to be found in the
terrorist, the kidnapper, the hijacker, the looter, and
in the clenched fist of the demonstrator. [...] When
we ask what is their justification, they hardly have to
give an answer, because our age finds it for them.
_They are angry._ That is apparently enough. We
justify their Wrath, so we justify their violence. If
someone thinks that he has cause to be angry, he
may act from his Anger as destructively as he sees
fit. In fact, we have come close to the point of giving
to Wrath an incontestable license to terrorize our
society, just as an angry man may terrorize his family,
but whereas we do not excuse the husband or the
father, we extend our sympathy and understanding
to the terrorist.
--Henry Fairlie (1924—1990)
British author.
_The Seven Deadly Sins Today_ [1978]

There was never an angry man that
thought his anger unjust.
--Francis, St, de Sales (1567—1622)
French bishop.

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Anger is never without a Reason, but
seldom with a good One.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1753]


Take this remark from *Richard* poor and lame,
Whate'er's begun in anger ends in shame.
--Benjamin Franklin (1706—1790)
American politician, inventor, and scientist.
_Poor Richard's Almanack_ [1734]

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You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
--Indira Gandhi (1917—1984)
Prime Minister of India [1966—1977]
and [1980-1984]. She was assasinated
by Sikh extremists.

The best answer to anger is silence.
--German Proverb

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Lord Glasgow, having flung a waiter through the window
of his club, brusquely ordered, 'Put him on the bill.'
--_The Folio Book of Humorous Anecdotes_
Introduced by Edward Leeson [2005], "Food, Drink and Entertaining"

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Anger is never without an argument,
but seldom with a good one.
--George Savile, 1st Marquess Halifax (1633—1695)
English politician and essayist.
_Political, Moral, and Miscellaneous Thoughts and Reflections_ [1750]

If a small thing has the power to make you angry,
does that not indicate something about your size?
--Sydney J. Harris (1917—1986)
American journalist.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.
--George Herbert (1593—1633)
English religious poet.

A fit of anger is as fatal to dignity as
a dose of arsenic is to life.
--Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819—1881)
American novelist, poet, and editor
of "Scribner’s Magazine."

Anger is momentary madness, so control your passion or it
will control you.
[Lat., Ira furor brevis est: animum rege: qui nisi paret imperat.]
--Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65—8 BC)
Roman poet.
_Epistles_, I, 2, 62

The world needs anger. The world often continues
to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.
--Bede Jarrett, _The House of Gold_

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When angry, count to ten before you speak;
if very angry, a hundred.
--Thomas Jefferson (1743—1826)
American statesman and president [1801—1809].
"A Decalogue of Canons for Observation in Practical Life" [21 February 1825]

& note:

When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.
--Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910)
American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot.

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Anyone who angers you, conquers you.
--Sister Elizabeth Kenny (1880—1952)
Australian bush nurse.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality
and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense
of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe
the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to
confuse the true with the false and the false with the
true.
--Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929—1968)
American civil rights leader.
_Strength to Love_ [1963]

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Walter Savage Landor (1775—1864)
British poet, essayist, and critic.

Landor's cook displeased his master one day
by serving an indifferent meal. Landor in a
passion threw him through an open window.
The cook landed awkwardly in the flower bed
below and broke a limb. Landor cried out,
'Good God, I forgot the violets!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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Lord Nosh stood upon the hearthrug of the library.
Trained diplomat and statesman as he was, his
stern aristocratic face was upside down with fury.
--Stephen Butler Leacock (1869—1944)
Canadian humorist.
"Gertrude the Governess, or Simple Seventeen"

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Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.


If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we
should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering
enough to disarm all hostility.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807—1882)
American poet.
_Driftwood_ [1857]

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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything.
They just cry over their condition. But when they
get angry, they bring about a change.
--Malcolm X (1925—1965)
American civil rights campaigner.
_Malcolm X Speaks_ [1965], ch. IX,
"With Mrs. Fannie Lou Hamer"

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Do unsavory armpits and bad breath make you angry?
What good will it do you? Given the mouth and
armpits the man has got, that condition is bound to
produce these odors. "After all, though, the fellow
is endowed with reason, and he is perfectly able to
understand what is offensive if he gives any thought
to it." Well and good: but you yourself are also
endowed with reason; so apply your reasonableness
to move him to a like reasonableness; expound,
admonish. If he pays attention, you will have worked
a cure, and there will be no need for passion; leave
that to actors and streetwalkers.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_, Book V, Number 28


Our anger and annoyance are more detrimental to
us than the things which anger or annoy us.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.
_Meditations_


How much more grievous are the consequences
of anger than the causes of it.
--Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121—180)
Roman emperor [161—180] and Stoic philosopher.

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To be angry at people means that one considers their
acts to be important.
--Juan Matus
(Quoted in Carlos Castaneda's
_The Teachings of Don Juan_ [1968])

Every normal man must be tempted at times to
spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and
begin slitting throats.
--H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880—1956)
American journalist and literary critic.
"Prejudices," _Portable Curmudgeon_

Is it worthwhile that we jostle a brother,
Bearing his load on the rough road of life?
Is it worthwhile that we jeer at each other,
In blackness of heart--that we war to the knife?
God pity us all in our pitiful strife.
--Joaquin Miller [Cincinnatus Hiner Miller] (1837—1913)
American poet and journalist.
_Is it Worthwhile?_

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From the Washington Post.

A man sawed off his hand at a Fairfax County butcher shop last night after a dispute over his order, county police said. Police said the man was taken to a hospital in serious condition after the 7 p.m. incident in a market in the 7000 block of Spring Garden Drive in the Franconia area. Police said that they understood that the man had wanted goat and was given chicken.

--_New Yorker_ (magazine) [24 December 2007]

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It's my rule never to lose my temper
till it would be detrimental to keep
it.
--Sean O'Casey (1880—1964)
Irish dramatist and memorist.
"The Plough and the Stars" [1926]

Speak when you are angry--and you will make
the best speech you'll ever regret.
--Laurence J. Peter (1919—1990)
Canadian teacher and author.

An angry woman is vindictive beyond measure,
and hesitates at nothing in her bitterness.
--Jean-Antoine Petit-Senn (1792—1870)
French-Swiss lyric poet

The anger of the weak never goes away, Professor, it just gets a
little mouldy. It moulds like a beautiful blue cheese in the dark,
growing stronger and more interesting. The poor and the weak die
with all their anger intact and probably those angers go on growing
in the dark of the grave like the hair and the nails.
--Marge Piercy (1936— )
American poet and novelist
_Woman on the Edge of Time_

To be angry, is to revenge the fault of others upon ourselves.
--Alexander Pope (1688—1744)
English poet.

Anger dieth quickly with a good man.
--John Ray (1627—1705)
English naturalist and botanist.
_A Collection of English Proverbs_ [1678]

People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing.
--Will Rogers [William Penn Adair Rogers] (1879—1935)
American humorist and actor.

No one else "makes us angry." We make ourselves
angry when we surrender control of our attitude.
What someone else may have done is irrelevant.
We choose, not they. They merely put our attitude
to a test. If we select a volatile attitude by
becoming hostile, angry, jealous or suspicious,
then we have failed the test. If we condemn
ourselves by believing that we are unworthy,
then again, we have failed the test.
--Jim Rohn

It's a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves
badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.
--Bertrand Russell (1872—1970)
British philosopher, mathematician, and Nobel laureate.

He that will be angry for anything will be angry for nothing.
--Sallust [Gaius Sallustius Crispus] (c. 86BC—35/34 BC)
Roman historian.
In James Wood _Dictionary of Quotations..._, p. 148 [1893]

Anger is never without an argument,
but seldom with a good one.
--George Savile [Lord Halifax] (1633—1695)
English politicial and essayist.

This trick consists in making your opponent angry; for when he is
angry he is incapable of judging aright, and perceiving where
his advantage lies. You can make him angry by doing him repeated
injustice, or practising some kind of chicanery, and being generally
insolent.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788—1860)
German philosopher.
_The Art of Controversy_ VIII. tr. by T. Bailey Saunders [1896]

Little folk are soon angry.
--Scottish proverb

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The greatest remedy for anger is delay.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
_On Anger_ {De Ira}
In William Braxton _On Desire:Why We Want What We Want_[2005], p. 243.


A Physician is not angry at the Intemperance of a mad Patient;
nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a Man in a Fever: Just
so should a wise Man treat all Mankind, as a Physician does
his Patient; and looking upon them only as sick, and
extravagant....
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.
In Marion Mills Miller _The Classics, Greek & Latin_ [1909].


He is a fool who cannot be angry; but he
is a wise man who will not.
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.— 65 A.D.)
Roman philosopher and poet.

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I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.
_Othello_ [1604—1605], act IV, sc. ii


Men in rage strike those that wish them best.
--William Shakespeare (1564—1616)
English dramatist.

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Anger is a normal emotion if it is expressed when felt.
Then it is over with. If one keeps a lid on it, it develops
into resentment or hate. Sooner or later, resentment
and hate explode, destroying others, or they are held
in, destroying oneself.
--Bernie Siegel (1932— )
American physician and author.
_Love, Medicine & Miracles_ [1986]

Calling a spade a spade never made the spade
interesting yet. Take my advice, leave spades
alone.
--Dame Edith Sitwell (1887—1964)
British poet and critic.
Letter to Charles Henri Ford [23 August 1933].

Lefty Stackhouse, who played the pro tour
in the 1930s and early 1940s, would treat
various parts of his body as if they were
independent beings and apportion them
responsibility for his errors. One day Lefty
hit a bad hook and immediately concluded
that the trouble had been caused by his right
hand turning over on the shot. "Take that!' he
shouted, as he slapped the hand violently
against a tree trunk. Stackhouse is the man
who once attempted to strangle his putter and
once after missing a short putt battered the
club against the radiator of his car. Ky Laffoon
(another golf pro) was known to have plunged
his putter into a lake and screamed, 'Drown
you son of a bitch, drown!'
--Art Spander and Mark Mulvoy
"The Golf Imperative,"
in _The Golf Book_ ed. Michael Bartlett [1980].

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Paul Verlaine (1844—1896)
French poet.

Poet and painter F.A. Cazals, a friend of Verlaine,
arranged to meet the poet at a cafι, but was
unavoidably late. When he finally did arrive, he
was a trifle nervous, for Verlaine drunk was
unpreditable. A mutual friend met Cazals at the
door and warned him that Verlaine, hopelessly
drunk, was 'furious with you.' Cazals entered to
find Verlaine surrounded by his acolytes, but a
little less drunk than he had been described.
Cazals took courage: 'I hear that you were
abusing me just a few minutes ago.'

'Who told you that?' cried the furious Verlaine.

'Somebody you don't know,' replied Cazals
prudently.

'Somebody I don't know!' exclaimed Verlaine.
He began to weave his way through the
crowded cafι. 'I'm going outside, and the
first passerby I don't know, I'll--I'll-- *smash
his jaw*!'

--_Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes_
edited by Clifton Fadiman and Andrι Bernard [2000 ed.]

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He was in the frame of mind when he would have liked
to meet Joe Louis and pick a quarrel with him.
--P.G. [Pelham Grenville] Wodehouse (1881—1975)
English humorist; American citizen from 1955.
_Uncle Dynamite_ [1948]

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SQUASH HIM LIKE A TRUFFLE

This item was reported on NPR's "Car Talk"

Cecile Porc drove for eight miles with a cyclist spread-eagled across
her windscreen, refusing to stop because she thought he was a mugger.
Madame Porc, 83, hit the man at a crossroads near Valence [France],
catapulting him onto the bonnet where he clung for dear life. As she
accelerated to 70 miles an hour, she was shouting "Murderer, Murderer"
said the victim. He hammered on the windscreen and screamed "I'm a
cyclist" but she just turned on the windscreen wipers. She was
eventually stopped by a police roadblock but remained unrepentant. "My
only regret," she later declared, "is that I didn't drive into a wall
and squash him like a truffle."

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Better pissed off than on.

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TOPICAL

Anger Mismanagement
By STEPHEN MILLER
March 19, 2004
The Wall Street Journal

[ . . . ]

The ancients knew that anger was a common emotion -- and, oddly, a pleasing one. In the "Iliad" Achilles, regretting that anger has disturbed his judgment, speaks of "that gall of anger that swarms like smoke inside of a man's heart / and becomes a thing sweeter to him by far than the dripping of honey." The ancients argued that in certain circumstances anger is appropriate. (In ancient Greek the word for anger is also translated as spiritedness.) Democratic and Republican strategists want their base to be angry so that voter turnout will be high. Yet anger is bad for deliberation. In "Of Duties," Cicero says: "Nothing can be done rightly or thoughtfully when done in anger." He advises that, "even in disputes that arise with our greatest enemies, and even if we hear unworthy things said against us, [we must] maintain our seriousness and...dispel our anger."

Are Americans more angry about politics than ever? Maybe not. In the 19th century, many foreign visitors noted the acrimonious nature of American political campaigns. In "Domestic Manners of Americans" (1832), Mrs. Trollope wrote that "electioneering madness...engrosses every conversation, it irritates every temper, it substitutes party spirit for personal esteem; and, in fact, vitiates the whole system of society." In "American Notes" (1842), Charles Dickens referred to the "injurious Party Spirit" that sickens and blights everything. To take but one example from later in the century: James Garfield, a Republican congressman campaigning for Rutherford B. Hayes in 1876, said that a victory by the Democratic nominee, Samuel Tilden, would be an "irretrievable calamity." When Garfield learned that the Democrats had captured the House, he angrily exclaimed: "We are defeated by the combined power of rebellion, Catholicism and whiskey."

American political campaigns have often featured angry rhetoric, but in the 19th century there was not what might be called an ideology of anger, as there seems to be now. In the past 40 years, counterculture theorists, psychologists, rappers and talk-show hosts have acted as if expressing one's anger is good for the psyche and good for the nation. In his (sadly) influential essay "The White Negro" (1957), Norman Mailer said: "To be an existentialist, one must be able to feel oneself -- one must know one's desires, one's rages, one's anguish, one must be aware of the character of one's frustration and know what would satisfy it." Existentialist here is a fancy term for a person who gets in touch with his feelings. And feelings are everywhere now, with plenty of fuel to keep the angry fires burning. Three decades ago, in the movie "Network," Howard Beale was shouting that he was "mad as hell" and "not taking it anymore." Today one can stoke one's anger by listening to talk radio, watching contentious television talk shows and visiting Web sites filled with invective.

Great political thinkers, including David Hume and James Madison, would not have been pleased by all this. They argued that a nation was in danger of collapsing into violent civil discord if most politicians and most voters were angry. It was important, the young Ben Franklin said, to "command one's temper." Now many observers think political discussion should lead to a higher anger level. The authors of "Salons: The Joy of Conversation" (2001) call for a revival of salons in which "passionate conversation" will lead "to passionate action."

Well, passion, yes, if by that is meant full, thoughtful engagement. But anger is something else. It is a kind of sickness, and it distorts all debate. Anger causes people to cast legitimate differences of opinion in stark moral terms, as if all those on one side possess integrity and all those on the other side are corrupt. During the French Revolution the Jacobins, the masters of the Terror, denounced all those who disagreed with them as "corrupt." With politicians from both parties angrily calling opponents lying and corrupt, it's a good thing we don't have guillotines anymore.

Mr. Miller is the author of "Three Deaths and Enlightenment Thought: Hume, Johnson, Marat" (2001).

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choleric [KOL-uh-rik; kuh-LAIR-ik], adjective:
1. Easily irritated; inclined to anger; bad-tempered.
2. Angry; indicating or expressing anger; excited by anger.
Ex.: The expression in his face -- pinched, vengeful, and mean -- could
assign to a choleric temperament or a display of tactical emotion on
the part of a clever bully.
-- Lewis H. Lapham, "Notebook"
_Harper's_ [February 2001]

defenestrate [dee-FEN-uh-strayt], transitive verb:
To throw out of a window.

glower [GLAU-uhr], intransitive verb:
1. To look or stare angrily or with a scowl.
2. An angry or scowling look or stare.

irascible [ih-RASS-uh-buhl], adjective:
Prone to anger; easily provoked to anger; hot-tempered.
Ex.: "The lawyer described his client as an irascible eighty-two-
year-old eccentric who alternated between spinning fascinating
tales about her past and cussing him out."
--Jack Olsen, _Hastened to the Grave_

tirade [TY-raid; tih-RAID], noun:
A long angry speech; a violent denunciation;
a prolonged outburst full of censure or abuse.


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