John Henrik Clarke Quotes

At the same time I know that it’s not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

I'm not as impatient as I used to be. I used to hit people if I didn't like what they were saying. Just lash out. 'Bam - shut up! Hahahah!' I was terrible.

I used to be angry all the time and at everybody. I would get really violent.

There was one point in time that I wasn't fighting, and I was frustrated and I was getting in trouble.

I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

People turn to violence, because they have no other avenue left.

Seriously, I don't need a gun. I'm easily annoyed. I would shoot people in my house that I invited over.

Anybody who's been through a divorce will tell you that at one point. they've thought murder. The line between thinking murder and doing murder isn't that major.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

I'll get to the force field of this hostility, why it's there, why the rage is in any of us, why the trash takes place, whether or not it's between me and a couple of hecklers in the audience or between this country and another nation, the rage.

I went through a period where I just wanted to punch everybody. Since then, I've had a lot of therapy and I've figured a lot of things out.

Sometimes the routes leading to feelings of anger are so convoluted and circuitous that it takes enormous skill to discern their original source, or fountainhead. But regardless of the reason for or the source of the anger or the relative ease or complexity in perceiving either the anger or its source - everybody, but everybody, gets angry.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

I come from a background where, if someone is rough and tough, you handle things physically. People betrayed me, and you just want to choke them. But you choose forgiveness.

It's amazing how easily people are led to fury and chaos. Unhappy people with guns are not going to make this country great.

I don't have a temper. There's no fist through the walls.

Grown-ups yell. I don't know why, but they do.

Rioting is a childish way of trying to be a man, but it takes time to rise out of the hell of hatred and frustration and accept that to be a man you don't have to riot.

I have a bit of a temper.

I was too aggressive. Too angry.

I grew up as a boy with aggression.

I do not want to get hit in the face for real. I'll get mad.

My job is to show my clients that their anger is rarely someone else's fault. It's their flaw.

Fighting angry and fighting mad isn't good.