Weakness, fear, melancholy, together with ignorance, are the true sources of superstition. Hope, pride, presumption, a warm indignation, together with ignorance, are… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
The Islamist camp is infused with a righteous indignation, as the forces of old, corrupt and rotten Egypt unite to try and… — Crispin Blunt Copy Share Image
Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their… — Paul Valery Copy Share Image
I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't… — Harold Ramis Copy Share Image
Science has learned recently that contempt and indignation are addictive mental states. I mean physically and chemically addictive. Literally! People who are… — David Brin Copy Share Image
I have always seen life personally; my interest or sympathy or indignation is not aroused by an abstract cause but by the… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a… — Max Gluckman Copy Share Image
What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions… — Claud Cockburn Copy Share Image
I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans.… — Robert Reich Copy Share Image
The gusto of one, the indignation of the other; the challenge of the one party, the response of the other; the eloquence… — Theodore White Copy Share Image
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. — Vittorio De Sica Copy Share Image
If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should… — Mo Yan Copy Share Image
What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
“It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat. — Leon Blum Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“All things seemed in their kinds to be my enemies... It seemed then to my apprehension to proceed from indignation, wrath, and… — Richard Norwood English Puritan 1638 Copy Share Image
A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other… — Leland Stanford Copy Share Image
“Pain is a warning,” said Anaander Mianaai. “What would happen if you removed all discomfort from your life? No,” Mianaai continued, ignoring… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist.… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image