A Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Indignation Person Puritan Righteous Righteous Indignation Things Wrong Wrong Thing Wrong Things

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English - Writer
May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Clarence Darrow

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

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

The Islamist camp is infused with a righteous indignation, as the forces of old, corrupt and rotten Egypt unite to try and drive them underground once again. This indignation is lethally reinforced by a willingness to die for their beliefs and a determination that they are not going to be driven from the political field as they were before.

Crispin Blunt

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 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

Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are self-righteous a lot are apparently doping themselves rhythmically with auto-secreted surges of dopamine, endorphins and enkephalins. Didn't you ever ask yourself why indignation feels so good?

David Brin

The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.

Bill Crawford

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

Elbert Hubbard

What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

Pauline Kael

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

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Martin Luther

Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.