Quotes About Indignation

Le succès, le temps, l'argent, et l'imprimerie sont relégués au fond de ma pensée dans des horizons très vagues et parfaitement indifférents. Tout cela me semble bête comme chou et indigne (je répète le mot, indigne) de vous émouvoir la cervelle.

Narcissists erupt with self-righteous indignation whenever they believe others are breaking rules, acting unfairly, or getting more than their fair share of the pie. They have no compunction about breaking the rules themselves, however, because they know they're special and the rules don't apply to them.

Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his Breast. Imitate him if you dare, World-Besotted Traveler; he Served human liberty.

The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions.

My hatred of privilege and human authority was unbounded; perhaps at times I have been guilty, in my indignation, of confounding persons and things; at present I can only despise and complain; to cease to hate I only needed to know.

Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended.

Because each nation has its own history of thieving and lies and broken faith, therefore there can only flourish international suspicion and jealousy, and international moral shame becomes anæmic to a degree of ludicrousness. The nation's bagpipe of righteous indignation has so often changed its tune according to the variation of time and to the altered groupings of the alliances of diplomacy, that it can be enjoyed with amusement as the variety performance of the political music hall.

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action.

The cramping influence of a hard formalist on a young child in repressing his spirits and courage, paralyzing the understanding, and that without producing indignation, but only fear and obedience, and even much sympathy with his tyranny, - is a familiar fact explained to the child when he becomes a man, only by seeing that the oppressor of his youth is himself a child tyrannized over by those names and words and forma, of whose influence he was merely the organ to the youth.

They will be bound to make some arrests, he thought, with something resembling virtuous indignation, for the even tenor of his revolutionary life was menaced by no fault of his.

Falamos com indignação ou com entusiasmo; falamos sobre opressão, crueldade, crime, devoção, abnegação, virtude e nada sabemos, além de palavras. Ninguém sabe o que significa sofrimento ou sacrifício – exceto, talvez, as vítimas do misterioso propósito dessas ilusões.

And that smell of masculine indignation, rage like something singed.

A slow, admiring smile drifted across his face as he said, "What a chameleon you are!" Her eyes snapped with indignation. "Lizard?

As a result, legitimate indignation is regularly siphoned away from speech with God to be acted out in other, perhaps more destructive ways. Such speech of rage addressed to YHWH is credible only when the worshiping community has confidence that the covenant God addressed is both willing and able to intervene in contexts of unbearable suffering.

La cólera ante la injusticia se llama indignación.

La indignación puede definirse como un sentimiento de cólera ante la injusticia. Cuando sentimos una oleada de ácido clorhídrico en el estómago, cuando se nos va la voz o nos ponemos rojos de la rabia, cuando no podemos pegar el ojo pensando en lo que nos hicieron, cuando una fuerza interior desconocida nos impide olvidar, es probable, aunque no definitivo, que estemos frente a un derecho vital.

David, por ejemplo, fue un tipo y un vocero de Cristo, y los Salmos imprecatorios dan expresión a la justicia infinita del Hombre–Dios, de Su indignación contra la maldad, de Su compasión por las víctimas del mal. Revelan los sentimientos de Su corazón y los pensamientos de Su mente respecto al pecado. J.H. Webster

For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused.

This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims than my criminals. The more passionately alive the victim, the more glorious indignation I have on his behalf, and am full of a delighted triumph when I have delivered a near-victim out of the valley of the shadow of death. Returning

Not until fiddlesticks!" The snort Miss Howard gave was truly magnificent.

If you aren't completely appalled, then you haven't been paying attention.