Top 969 Righteous Indignation Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.

One of the best ways to celebrate righteous history is to make more of it, make more righteous history!

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

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

Called to the throne of my fathers, I have taken over the government, looking to the King of all kings, and have vowed to God, following the example of my father, to be a righteous and gentle prince, to foster piety and the fear of God, to maintain peace, to further the welfare of the country, to be a help to the poor and oppressed, and to be to the righteous man a true protector.

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

A character standard is far more important than even a gold standard. The success of all economic systems is still dependent upon both righteous leaders and righteous people. In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

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

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

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

If a man's aspirations towards a righteous life are serious.. .if he earnestly and sincerely seeks a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from animal food, because, not to mention the excitement of the passions produced by such food, it is plainly immoral, as it requires an act contrary to moral feeling, i. e., killing - and is called forth only by greed.

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

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

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

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

The Righteous Brothers started out in Orange County, California. It was about the whitest place in the country, but the black marines from the nearby base heard there were two guys singing rhythm and blues, so they came down to hear us. At the end of our songs they'd yell out, 'That's righteous, brother!' and that's how we got our name.

The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. If it were not for the laws of the land, we should soon see a massacre of the righteous. Jesus was watched by his enemies, who were thirsting for his blood: his disciples must not look for favour where their Master found hatred and death.

I always have a feeling of awe and wonder at what God can do - using me as an instrument. I believe that anyone who is fully surrendered to God's will can be used gloriously - and will really know some things - and will probably be called self-righteous. You're called self-righteous if you are self-centered enough to think you know everything - but you may also be called self-righteous by the immature if you are God-centered enough to really know some things.

The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God.

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

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

If we will build righteous traditions in our families, the light of the gospel can grow ever brighter in the lives of our children from generation to generation. We can look forward to that glorious day when we will all be united together as eternal family units to reap the everlasting joy promised by our Eternal Father for His righteous children.

Who is righteous? Anyone who is repenting. No matter how bad he has been, if he is repenting he is a righteous man. There is hope for him. And no matter how good he has been all his life, if he is not repenting, he is a wicked man. The difference is which way you are facing. The man on the top of the stairs facing down if much worse off than the man on the bottom step who is facing up. The direction we are facing, that is repentance; and that is what determines whether we are good or bad.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

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

People should not worry as much about what they do but rather about what they are. If they and their ways are good, then their deeds are radiant. If you are righteous, then what you do will also be righteous. We should not think that holiness is based on what we do but rather on what we are, for it is not our works which sanctify us but we who sanctify our works.

If merited, no courage can stand against its just 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 greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation.

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

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

Make account that thou hast done nothing, and then thou hast done all. For if, being sinners, when we account ourselves to be what we are, we become righteous, as indeed the Publican did; how much more, when being righteous we account ourselves to be sinners.

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.

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.

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.

God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous.

Nothing that man ever invents will absolve him from the universal necessity of being good as God is good, righteous as God is righteous, and holy as God is holy.

A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

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

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

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

One should at least have some self-righteous ego. Not in the sense that you refuse to apologise even when judges reason with you to apologise. Self-righteous ego in the sense that nobody can force you to apologise if there is no reason to do so.

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

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

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

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

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

Religions cannot change you. If you are angry, you will become an angry Muslim or Hindu. If you are righteous, you will become a righteous Christian or Jew.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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