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I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.
— Eddie Vedder
I didn't think you needed rescuing. I just sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity.
— Colleen Hoover
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
— Elbert Hubbard
Monster, I do smell all horse piss, at whichmy nose is in great indignation. (IV, 1, lines 223-224) — William Shakespeare
sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity." She
— Colleen Hoover
The spirit looks upon the DustThat fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. — Emily Dickinson
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
— Charles Caleb Colton
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
— Pedro Calderon De La Barca
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
— Stephen L. Carter
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.
— Susan Sontag
A good indignation makes an excellent speech.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
— Cornel West
The act of taking offence becomes a weapon, and its wielder feels empowered by the false indignation.
— Steven Erikson
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
— Vittorio De Sica
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
— Thomas Carlyle
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world.
— John F. Kennedy
...the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.
— Gabriel Chevallier
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Be angry only for a grave cause that rightly calls for indignation,' Maimonides wrote in his Mishneh Torah. What
— Simon Schama
I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.
— Doris Lessing
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?""Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone
Oscar Wilde summed up the indignation: A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
— Leslie Jamison
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
— Theodor Adorno
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[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain.
— L.M. Montgomery
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.
— Bill Crawford
I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy.
— Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ...
— Marie Bashkirtseff
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
— Chris Evans
Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.
— Kim Stanley Robinson
Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.
— Robert Klein
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
— Bertrand Russell
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.
— Joshua Oppenheimer
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
— Clarence Darrow
Fuck!" She yelled again, but her grin betrayed her indignation. "You fucker." She shoved
— C.K. Vile
But why are we always the ones who have to suffer?" she cried out in indignation. "Us and people like us? Ordinary people, the lower middle classes.
— Irene Nemirovsky
I frequently feel I'm being taken advantage of merely because I'm asked to do the work I'm paid to do.
— Joseph Heller
He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs.
— Claire Tomalin
Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt.
— Charles Dickens
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
— T.E. Lawrence
Indignation is often the best defense.
— Diane Capri
Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear
— Rassool Jibraeel Snyman
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God.
— William Blake
And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.
— Ralph Ellison
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.
— Ernesto Che Guevara
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.
— Pauline Kael
Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause. Beauvoir not only marshaled
— Simone De Beauvoir
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
— William Godwin
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.
— E.W. Howe
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
— H.G.Wells
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home
— Perry Anderson
But bad manners or vulgar gestures can sometimes have a touch of poetry about them, just enough not to arouse one's indignation.
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself.
— Jane Austen
Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.
— Ann Coulter
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.
— Robert A. Heinlein
Indignation. Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
— Irving Stone
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
— Norman Cousins
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
— Marshall McLuhan
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.
— Fredric Wertham
Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.
— George F. Will
Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer.
— H.W. Brands
