A Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge
British - Journalist
March 24, 1903 - November 14, 1990

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 Impersonal God seen through the mists of sense is personal.

Swami Vivekananda

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

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

So long as mists envelop you, be still. Be still until the sunlight pours through and dispels the mists - as it surely will. Then act with courage.

Chief White Eagle

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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

Bill Crawford

One place that I looked at a lot from space and which looks alluring is New Zealand, especially the North Island. It's a big broad valley with a river flowing through it, and you can see the wine-making dryness of the land.

Chris Hadfield

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

Just as meekness is in all our virtues, so is pride in all our sins. Whatever its momentary and alluring guise, pride is the enemy, "the first of the sins." One reason to be particularly on guard against pride is that "the devilish strategy of Pride is that it attacks us, not in our weakest points, but in our strongest. It is preeminently the sin of the noble mind." Not only of the noble mind, but also of the semi-righteous.