A Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

One does not kill by anger but by laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Anger Does Laughter

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Friedrich Nietzsche
German - Philosopher
October 15, 1844 - August 25, 1900

There is nothing wrong with anger. Anger is a beautiful emotion, as valid and rich as joy or laughter. But you have been taught to repress your anger. Your anger has been condemned. If anger is unexpressed, it will slowly poison you. The key is to know how to express your anger. Do not throw it out onto any one. No one is responsible for your anger. Simply express your anger. Beat up a cushion. Go for a run. Express your anger to a tree. Dance your anger. Enjoy it.

Leonard Jacobson

Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Let’s take this figure of the feminist killjoy seriously. Does the feminist kill other people’s joy by pointing out moments of sexism? Or does she expose the bad feelings that get hidden, displaced, or negated under public signs of joy? Does bad feeling enter the room when somebody expresses anger about things, or could anger be the moment when the bad feelings that circulate through objects get brought to the surface in a certain way?

Sara Ahmed

Anger kills both laughter and joy; What greater foe is there than anger?

Thiruvalluvar

Here I saw, with my own eyes, that laughter was the most terrible weapon: you can kill anything with laughter - even murder itself.

Yevgeny Zamyatin

I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity—through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Not with wrath do we kill, but with laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Work does not kill you, food does. God does not kill you, food does. Food is your first and last enemy. If you take in more than you can handle, it takes all of your energy to digest it.

Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Anger does not make history. Power does. And power may be supplemented by anger, but it derives from more fundamental realities; geography, demographics, technology, and culture.

George Friedman

If a person does not harm any living being...and does not kill or cause others to kill - that person is a true spiritual practitioner

Gautama Buddha

Anger itself does more harm than the condition which aroused anger.

David O. McKay

Laughter does not deny pain. Laughter - like a wail - acknowledges and replies to pain.

Tim O'Brien

Laughter to begin with was probably glee at the misfortunes of others. The baring of the teeth in laughter hints at its savage ancestry. Animals have no malice, hence also no laughter. They never savor the sudden glory of Schadenfreude. It was its infectious quality that made of laughter a medium of mutuality.

Eric Hoffer

I am old enough to know that laughter, not anger, is the true revelation.

Erica Jong

Anger, as long as it is controlled anger, is no obstacle to efficiency. Self-control is one thing the sociopath does not usually possess. Use yours to his undoing.