Life & Wisdom Quote by Bede Jarrett

Anger, in Bede Jarrett's hands, isn’t a loss of control; it’s a missing civic muscle. The line is built like a rebuke to polite society: the world doesn’t merely suffer evil, it “continues to allow” it, as if passivity were a form of quiet consent. Jarrett’s intent feels less like romanticizing rage than rescuing it from the bad PR it gets in moral discourse. He’s arguing for anger as a moral signal - the body’s way of registering that something is intolerable - and as a social accelerant that turns private discomfort into public refusal.

The subtext is aimed at a familiar temptation: mistaking calm for virtue. “Isn’t angry enough” implies that the obstacle to change isn’t ignorance or complexity but insufficient heat. People know; they just don’t feel it sharply enough to risk inconvenience, reputation, or safety. Evil thrives not only through villains but through the slow, bureaucratic weather of everyone else’s restraint.

Context matters: Jarrett was a Dominican friar and early 20th-century Catholic writer, formed in a tradition that distinguishes righteous anger from corrosive wrath. That theological backdrop gives the quote its edge. He’s not advocating for tantrums or vengeance; he’s trying to legitimate indignation as a duty. Read that way, the line becomes an indictment of performative niceness and a call for moral seriousness: if your emotions never rise to anger, your ethics may be too comfortable to be real.