Elvis Costello Quotes

To be angry is very good. It burns out things and leaves nutrients in the soil. You should always be ready to be angry at injustice and cruelty.

The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough.

I'm a perpetually mad person. I hate injustice. As far as I'm concerned, I'm living to fight injustice. I'm living to fight the goddamned thing. I'm too mad to sleep.

It's not about being mad at everything. It's about being really mad at the right things.

We all get outraged by things and there are things that make us angry and maybe for a while we get angry enough to actually go do something about it.

I'm an activist; I have to be angry all the time. That's what we do!

Rage only works if it is justified. That's the trick with rage. You gotta have a reason to be mad.

Those who protest at injustice are people of true merit.

The starting point is a passionate anger at something that does not work very well.

When the cause is just, and there's been injustice, then it's easy to kind of galvanize your emotions and confront a guy.

We do justice coldly, injustice hotly.

If you’re not mad at the world, you don’t have what it takes

In life, purpose is defined by the thing that makes you angry. Martin Luther was angry; Mandela was angry; Mahatma Gandhi was angry; Mother Teresa was angry. If you are not angry, you do not have a ministry yet.

The truth about injustice always sounds outrageous.

If they asked how I died tell them: Still angry.

Leadership is birthed out of anger!

If you’re not angry, then you’re just stupid, you don’t care. How else can you react when something’s so unfair?

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.

We should retain our anger in the face of injustice and not be shamed by that.

My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible.

I hate injustice, and I can't help but speak against it. But I don't want to get involved in politics.

Whoever stands by a just cause cannot possibly be called a terrorist.

Do something that makes a difference - because, by God, there's a lot to make you angry.

Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.