Anger
Overview
Anger is an automatic response to ill treatment. It is the way a person indicates he or she will not tolerate certain types of behaviour. It is a feedback mechanism in which an unpleasant stimulus is met with an unpleasant response.

Anger is an emotion
Emotion
Emotion is a complex psychophysiological experience of an individual's state of mind as interacting with biochemical and environmental influences. In humans, emotion fundamentally involves "physiological arousal, expressive behaviors, and conscious experience." Emotion is associated with mood,...

 related to one's psychological interpretation of having been offended, wronged or denied and a tendency to undo that by retaliation.
Quotations

How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it?

Marcus Aurelius

When a man gets angry he falls down.

Bhagavad Gita|Bhagwad Gita

In the beginning, the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, chapter 1. (Second novel of the The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series).

We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

Alfred Adler

As the whirlwind in its fury teareth up trees, and deformeth the face of nature, or as an earthquake in its convulsions overturneth whole cities; so the rage of an angry man throweth mischief around him. ·

Akhenaton|Akhenaton

To be angry is easy. But to be angry with the right man at the right time and in the right manner, that is not easy. ·

Aristotle

Indulge not thyself in the passion of Anger; it is whetting a sword to wound thine own breast, or murder thy friend.

Akhenaton|Akhenaton

Iratus semplar plus putat posse facere quam possit.

The angry man always thinks he can do more than he can.

Men often make up in wrath what they want in reason.

William Rounseville Alger

Anyone can become angry — that is easy, but to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way — that is not easy.

Aristotle

 
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