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Quotes About Indignation

Women frequently express indignation at their inability to find a replacement for the husband they walked out on: I call them the angry adulteresses.
~ F. Roger Devlin
In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation.
~ Billy Graham
There are too many professed Christians who never get "wrought up" about anything; they never get indignant with injustice, with corruption in high places, or with the godless traffics which barter away the souls and bodies of people.
~ Billy Graham
But in the man and his presidency Dowd had seen the tragic flaw. In the political back-and-forth, the evasions, the denials, the tweeting, the obscuring, crying "Fake News," the indignation, Trump had one overriding problem that Dowd knew but could not bring himself to say to the president: "You're a fucking liar.
~ Bob Woodward
Trembling as usual, I dropped to one knee and, holding on to the drum with one hand, looked up, wondering what he, my boss, had against me, what made him pull such terrifying faces, faces so indignant, so full of suffering that they always made me believe that I was a repulsive person and a hopeless worker who inflicted the most ignoble blows on his noble superior.
~ Bohumil Hrabal
I am an anti-moralism moralist and I write righteously indignant diatribes against righteous indignation. I contradict myself. I have great ideas and a lot to say, but I'm not much of a writer. I don't learn to control myself and do what is required.
~ Brad Blanton
Jamás!» grita indignado. Pero ya sabemos por la Historia que ese «jamás» de los reyes, de los políticos y de los generales suele casi siempre ser el preludio de una capitulación. ¿No
~ Stefan Zweig
Are you shitting me?" Chu cried, fully turned in his seat now. "Are you fucking shitting me?
~ Michael Connelly
My interest in psychology was as a way to do philosophy," he said. "To understand the world by understanding why people, especially me, see it as they do. By then the question of whether God exists left me cold. But the question of why people believe God exists I found really fascinating. I was not really interested in right and wrong. But I was very interested in indignation. Now that's a psychologist!
~ Michael Lewis
By then the question of whether God exists left me cold. But the question of why people believe God exists I found really fascinating. I was not interested in right and wrong. But I was very interested in indignation. Now that's a psychologist!
~ Michael Lewis
Well!" Mrs. Featherington huffed. "I never!" "No," Anthony replied. "You always.
~ Julia Quinn
Qué hijo de puta
~ Julio Cortazar
They blew up your homes and demolished the grocery / stores and blocked the Red Cross and took away doctors / to jail and they cluster-bombed girls and boys / whose bodies / swelled purple and black into twice the original size / and tore the buttocks from a four month old baby / and then / they said this was brilliant
~ June Jordan
If nature refuses, indignation will produce verses.
~ Juvenal
It doesn't drive me mad. It makes me mad.", FADE by Kailin Gow
~ Kailin Gow
mood other than satisfaction and that is rage.
~ Frederick Forsyth
No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
though envy is at best a very malignant passion, yet is its bitterness greatly heightened by mixing with contempt towards the same object; and very much afraid I am, that whenever an obligation is joined to these two, indignation and not gratitude will be the product of all three.
~ Henry Fielding
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.
~ Henry James
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.
~ John Kenneth Galbraith
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.
~ Che Guevara
He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian.
~ Stephen L. Carter
Maybe that rusty boat hangar looked like the entrance to a cave to her," he'd said. Maybe. If you were eight, and near-sighted, and nostalgic for places that you'd never been. But if the Glowworm Grotto actually exists, that changes everything. Olivia's ghost could be there now, twitching her nose with rabbity indignation - "But I left you a map!" Wondering what took us so long to find her.
~ Karen Russell
I don't mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can't stomach moral indignation.
~ Kate Ross