Righteous Anger Quotes:

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.

- Dean Koontz

topic: Pain, Defeated, Grows, Righteous Anger

A little righteous anger really brings out the best in the American personality. Our nation was born when 56 patriots got mad enough to sign the Declaration of Independence. We put a man on the moon because Sputnik made us mad at being number two in space. Getting mad in a constructive way is good for the soul- and the country.

- Lee Iacocca

topic: Country, Moon, Men, Sputnik, Righteous Anger

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides By the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, Shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, For he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

- Quentin Tarantino

source: "Fictional character: Jules". "Pulp Fiction", www.imdb.com. 1994.

topic: Brother, Children, Selfish, Ak 47, Pulp

Is all anger sin? No, but some of it is. Even God Himself has righteous anger against sin, injustice, rebellion and pettiness.

- Joyce Meyer

topic: Motivational, Injustice, Sin, Righteous Anger

Don't let the sun go down on me.

- Elton John

source: Song: Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me

topic: Rejection, Sun, Handshake, Letting Go Of Anger, Losing Everything

The anger that you see expressed out there in Los Angeles, in my district this evening, is a righteous anger, and it's difficult for me to say to the people, "Don't be angry." When people are angry and enraged, they do do senseless things. They do act even sometimes out of character, and that's why it is the responsibility of America to try and avoid putting people in these kinds of situations.

- Maxine Waters

source: "Nightline", April 30, 1992.

topic: Character, Responsibility, America, Righteous Anger

Whenever I allow anything but tenderness and compassion to dictate my response to life--be it self-righteous anger, moralizing, defensiveness, the pressing need to change others...I am alienated from my true self. My identity as Abba's child [a child of God] becomes ambiguous, tentative and confused

- Brennan Manning

topic: Children, Confused, Compassion, Moralizing, Abba

All anger feels like righteous anger; sorrow does not care whether it is righteous or not.

- Mason Cooley

topic: Anger, Sorrow, Doe, Righteous Anger

You can’t make yourself closer to God by hating someone else, whether you believe it’s righteous anger or not. The relationship between Soul—which is you—and God is one of love. And where there’s pure love, there is no room for anger of any kind.

- Harold Klemp

source: Harold Klemp (1994). “Stories to help you see God in your life: ECK parables”

topic: Hate, Believe, Soul, Hating Someone, Righteous Anger

There is no such thing as "righteous" anger or justifiable killing.

- Swami Vivekananda

source: Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3117, Manonmani Publishers

topic: Anger, Killing, Righteous, Righteous Anger

There is a place where we are always alone with our own mortality, where we must simply have something greater than ourselves to hold onto-God or history or politics or literature or a belief in the healing power of love, or even righteous anger.... A reason to believe, a way to take the world by the throat and insist that there is more to this life than we have ever imagined.

- Dorothy Allison

source: Dorothy Allison (2013). “Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature”, p.121, Open Road Media

topic: Believe, Healing, Literature, Always Alone, Righteous Anger

America roused to a righteous anger has always been a force for good. States that have been supporting if not Osama bin Laden, people like him need to feel pain. If we flatten part of Damascus or Tehran or whatever it takes, that is part of the solution.

- Rich Lowry

topic: Pain, America, People, Righteous Anger

Successful prime-time television of any genre produces some kind of emotional reaction in the viewers. There are a lot of different emotions to tap into. The emotion of the reward of discovery, the feeling of righteous anger, the feelings of pathos and sadness, or sentimentality of being moved by something.

- Chris Hayes

topic: Sadness, Successful, Emotional, Different Emotions, Prime Time

I created 'The Westerner' because of anger - anger at never-miss sheriffs, always-right marshalls, whitewashed gunfighters ... anger at TV's quick-draw tin gods who stand behind a tin star or ten cents' worth of righteous anger and justify their skill and slaughter with a self-conscious grin or a minute's worth of bad philosophy.

- Sam Peckinpah

topic: Stars, Philosophy, Self, Westerners, Sheriffs

It's hard not to empathize with the mayor's anger, given the injustices he'd suffered, but righteous anger rarely leads to wise policy.

- Edward Glaeser

source: Edward Glaeser (2011). “Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier and Happier”, p.55, Pan Macmillan

topic: Wise, Anger, Injustice, Righteous Anger

Ram Dass

- Ram Dass

source: Ram Dass (2013). “Polishing the Mirror: How to Live from Your Spiritual Heart”, p.80, Sounds True

topic: Art, Pain, Unbearable, Transcending, Quaker