Chapter 30, “Anger” (p. 121)
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Anger is the chief emotion driving the deadly reciprocity of reprisal and revenge which has engulfed the recent history of the Middle East. The other dominating emotions of that tragedy—grief and terror—would bring the violence to an end without it. But anger, bitter and implacable when the only response it gets is anger returned, feeds on its reflection until it becomes insanity.
— A. C. Grayling
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About A. C. Grayling
Anthony Clifford Grayling (born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author.
About A. C. Grayling
Anthony Clifford Grayling (born 3 April 1949) is a British philosopher and author.
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