Tag: power

Wrath may involve a display of power, but it also reveals a lack of self-control and a failure to perceive the bigger picture.

A society that allows for jokes that challenge authority will recognize the validity of people’s feelings more broadly.

Feeling disgruntled is a feeling of powerlessness, of being insulted by fools who don’t deserve the authority that they have been granted.

Schadenfreude takes delight in the misery of others not because of a simple sadism, but because people feel despair when people with power can inflict cruelty without fear of consequences.