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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. -- Malcolm Muggeridge
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others -- Elbert Hubbard
I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. -- Clarence Darrow
The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant. -- Bill Crawford
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation. -- Pauline Kael
Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven. -- Cornel West
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
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
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next. -- Paul Valery
I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing -- righteous indignation. -- Anzia Yezierska
I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation. -- Max Gluckman
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
I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves. -- Corey Taylor
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions... Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country's future by staying true to core values and never retreating. -- Sarah Palin
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivasection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees! The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead. -- Richard Dawkins
Just because you're an adult doesn't mean you're grown up. Growing up means being patient, holding your temper, cutting out the self-pity, and quitting with the righteous indignation.' 'Why do so many people seem to love righteous indignation?' 'Because if you can prove you're a victim, all rules are off. You can lash out at people. You don't have to be accountable for anything. -- Brandon Stanton
I was a gangster when I was young. I had a Robin Hood mentality and tended to always want to support the weak against the strong, but sometimes it was cohesive and I really needed to fall in love with the power of education to find the right venue to express my rage. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. -- Cornel West
My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads, you've won your little game. You have proven your thesis that no-body-loves-me-every-body-hates-me, guess-I'll-just-eat-worms. You get to sink back into your hospital bed, shrieking with righteous indignation. See? you get to say. I knew you'd give up on me. I knew you'd leave. -- Marya Hornbacher
Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear -- rassool jibraeel snyman
My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation. -- Robert Klein
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
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
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
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

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