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Quotes About Indignation

nothing is more uplifting in all of life than righteous anger.
~ Philip Roth
This is the culture of the micro-aggression, where people literally seek out opportunities to be offended....Victim status is so desirable that it's constantly faked or exaggerated, and claims that one is not a victim are met with indignation.
~ Unknown
Jesus, look at that idiot! Waters' exec muttered, and the citizen captain shook his head in disgust. Having
~ David Weber
It doesn't take much to make me angry.
~ Christopher Hitchens
Everybody in America is angry about something.
~ Anthony Braxton
I am a person who is unhappy with things as they stand. We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.
~ Hugo Claus
My master taught me that nobody at all should become indignant about anything until he is sure that what he thinks is a wrong is in fact a wrong — and not a blessing in disguise!
~ Idries Shah
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
~ Conor Cruise O'Brien
Now there's a specific banality to rage as a reaction, an unearned sense of cleansing virtue.
~ Jim Harrison
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy.
~ Vittorio De Sica
If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
If I had nothing to say to Henry right off it was because following Lippman's seminar, language didn't really seem my domain any longer. I wasn't exactly a stranger to disputation, but never in my life had I felt so enclosed by a world so contentious, where the argument is enormous and constant and everything turns out to be pro or con, positions taken, positions argued, and everything italicized by indignation and rage.
~ Philip Roth
Según el rabino Kushner, Dios se siente tan frustrado, incluso tan indignado con la injusticia de este planeta como cualquier otro, pero carece del poder necesario para cambiar las cosas. Millones de lectores han encontrado consuelo en la descripción que hace Kushner de un Dios que parece compasivo, aunque sea débil.
~ Philip Yancey
Gradually, however, she revealed a frustration with the willful ignorance that is an abiding human trait, an indignation at the cruelty that people visit upon one another. She might see the world as hopeless, but she believed it did not have to remain that way.
~ Dean Koontz
Oh, foisted, is it? cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. Such a word! And if it means what I think it does, young man, you should get down on your knees and thank God for such foistingness!
~ Diana Gabaldon
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.
~ Irving Stone
Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him.
~ J. K. Rowling
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.
~ Unknown
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
~ Erich Fromm
Who spit in your porridge?
~ Jodi Picoult
The mind of a teacher of Latin and a reader of Greek is a queer thing. No sooner had Magnus in his justifiable indignation at her teasing ways imagined himself ravishing Curly by force in her own maiden bed, than such a blind passion of pure love for her swept over him that the blood rushed to his head and he squeezed his bony hands together.
~ John Cowper Powys
One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.
~ Eduardo Galeano
Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.
~ Marshall McLuhan