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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. -- Bertrand Russell
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. -- Eduardo Galeano
Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation. -- Thomas Carlyle
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] -- Juvenal
Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership. -- John Stott
Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition. -- E. W. Howe
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. -- Irving Stone
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo. -- H. G. Wells
A good indignation brings out all one's powers. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. -- Vittorio De Sica
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. -- Chris Evans
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
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One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. -- Simone de Beauvoir
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
But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings. -- Robert Peel
There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor. -- Al Franken
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. -- Mo Yan
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. -- Erich Fromm
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior. -- Thucydides
Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation. -- Angelina Grimke
I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed? -- Angelina Grimke
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong. -- Pema Chodron
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness. -- Leland Stanford
But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. -- Jose Marti
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation. -- Atifete Jahjaga
If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.' -- Stephane Hessel
If you've ever been to a poetry slam, you know that the highest scoring emotion is self-righteous indignation: how dare you judge me. So in that way, the poem, 'What Teachers Make,' is an absolutely formulaic slam poem designed to allow me to get up on my soap box and say, 'Let me tell you what really makes me angry.' -- Taylor Mali
A good indignation makes an excellent speech. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation. -- Doris Lessing
When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. -- Juvenal
Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear -- rassool jibraeel snyman
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation. -- Charles Caleb Colton
The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. -- William Blake
I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts. -- Eddie Vedder
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. -- Victor Hugo
I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something. -- John Cleese
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. -- T. E. Lawrence
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. -- Susan Sontag
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. -- Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him. -- J. K. Rowling
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others -- Elbert Hubbard
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. -- William Godwin
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. -- Clarence Darrow
The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation. -- Paul Harvey
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. -- Che Guevara
When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ... -- Marie Bashkirtseff
What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation. -- Fredric Wertham
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant. -- Bill Crawford
I think art is, unfortunately, sometimes our only shot at communicating our indignation safely and effectively. -- Andrea Suarez Paz
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation. -- Pauline Kael
Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation. -- Ann Coulter
My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation. -- Robert Klein
In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. -- Theodor Adorno
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven. -- Cornel West
If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation. -- Pedro Calderon de la Barca
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat. -- Leon Blum
I'm not putting them on," said old Archie in indignation. "I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks. -- J. K. Rowling
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. -- Andre Gide
If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades. -- Che Guevara
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion." -- Simone de Beauvoir
The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation. -- Scott Adams
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. -- William Butler Yeats
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 request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. -- Karl Kraus
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
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. -- Jeff Cooper
There is something about men more capable of shaking despotic power than lightening, whirlwind, or earthquake, that is, the threatened indignation of the whole civilized world. -- Daniel Webster
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. -- H. L. Mencken
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. -- David Hume
Scanning the newspapers and absorbing with a mixture of incredulity and indignation the enormities they report, I conclude that what England lacks today is, quite simply, sense. -- Paul Johnson
A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals. -- Theodore Roosevelt
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people. -- Barbara Holland
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. -- Arundhati Roy
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. -- George Sand
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.. -- J. K. Rowling
He who, with strong passions, remains chaste--he who, keenly sensitive, with manly power of indignation in him, can yet restrain himself and forgive--these are strong men, spiritual heroes. -- Frederick William Robertson
"Peggotty!" repeated Miss Betsey, with some indignation. "Do you mean to say, child, that any human being has gone into a Christian church, and got herself named Peggotty?" -- Charles Dickens
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. -- Edmund Burke
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
I stare at him in indignation. This changes what? I was his guardian angel till three minutes ago. You can't just switch guardian angels because you feel like it. -- Sophie Kinsella
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue. -- Erich Fromm
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 ... -- Gertrude Himmelfarb
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. -- Elias Canetti
Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda. -- Bertrand Russell
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. -- Thucydides
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? -- Zell Miller
Incens'd with indignation Satan stood Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair Shakes pestilence and war. -- John Milton
I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever. -- Cornel West
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. -- Henry Ward Beecher
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. -- Victor Hugo
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. -- Benjamin Disraeli
It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act. -- Emma Goldman
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. -- Henry Ward Beecher
The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution. -- Mark Levin
Daddy, said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, you are a poo-poo head!Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voiceJohn, he said, no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head. -- Christopher Andersen
The questions you ask consistently will create either enervation or enjoyment, indignation or inspiration, misery or magic. Ask the questions that will uplift your spirit and push you along the path of human excellence -- Tony Robbins
I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, I just liked the feeling of being pissed off. -- Harold Ramis
I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved. -- Stephane Hessel

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