Top 228 Indignation Quotes & Sayings

Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.]

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

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

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades.

Indignation and determination are much more constructive emotions than shame and embarrassment. And feminism was this engine that turned one into the other.

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

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.

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.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership.

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.

I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts.

The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street.

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.

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.

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something.

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

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

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

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.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

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

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

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

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.

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.

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?

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.

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?

Before she is an individual, a shaman is foremost a vehicle for receiving and expressing the grief and indignation of the people within society. The otherworldly strength that you see during a gut is the raging effort to forget and overcome the weakness of the self and is possible because it bears all the wrath and indignation of the people against oppression. Extraordinary acts performed with remarkable exaggeration encounter the human instinct to demolish one's own limitations, producing catharsis.

Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.

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

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

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.

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition.

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine.

I'm not putting them on,” said old Archie in indignation. “I like a healthy breeze 'round my privates, thanks.

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

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

I've always been 100%. I don't grandstand for the cameras. I don't have fake outrage or indignation. No tricks, no screaming or throwing my leg on the floor.

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.