"Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed"

This quote by Carl Sandburg talks to the futility of anger. Anger is an emotion that can be effective and overwhelming, however it is eventually impotent. It does not accomplish anything, and rather just serves to harm the individual who is feeling it. The individual who is the target of the anger might not even know it, and hence does not feel the results of it. In the end, the only person who is truly hurt by anger is the person who is feeling it. This quote works as a suggestion that anger is not a productive feeling, and that it is much better to discover other methods to reveal our feelings.