Indignation Quotes
Indignation Quote of the day
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.
Is that vodka?" Margarita asked weakly. The cat jumped up in his seat with indignation. "I beg pardon, my queen," he rasped, "Would I ever allow myself to offer vodka to a lady? This is pure alcohol!
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?
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.
Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love.
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.
Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.
Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are the true sources of enthusiasm.
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
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.
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?
Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
Nothing is needed so much as a holy indignation against sin. It is true that there is not enough love for God, and one sign of it is that there is not enough hatred for sin.
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.
Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.
Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm in summer, clearing and cooling the air.
My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once.
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation.
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
A man who does not know how to be angry, does not know how to be good. Now and then a man should be shaken to the core with indignation over things evil.
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.
