Indignant Quotes
45 quotes by 42 authors
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You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the…
— Ethel Barrymore
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The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.
— H. L. Mencken
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There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating in sparks, dream…
— Gelett Burgess
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Capablanca used to talk calmly and moderately about everything. However, when our conversation turned to the problems of the battle for the world championship, in…
— Alexander Koblencs
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Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Evan Handler is not only a fine actor, he’s a damn good writer. It’s Only Temporary is wise and funny and as righteously indignant as…
— Meghan Daum
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The difference between a politician and a pickpocket is that a pickpocket doesn't always get indignant when you tell him to keep his hands to…
— Joseph Sobran
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How barbarous, to deny men the privilege of pursuing what they imagine to be their proper concerns and interests! Yet, in a sense, this is…
— Marcus Aurelius
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My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that…
— Norman Finkelstein
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The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.
— Bill Crawford
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I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing…
— Marisa Tomei
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At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's…
— Julia Ormond
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Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come…
— John Cowper Powys
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Indignant reply to the blatent sex discrimination expressed in a colleague's opposition when Hilbert proposed appointing Emmy Noether as the first woman professor at their…
— David Hilbert
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It is so easy to be confrontive without being informative; indignant without being intelligent; impulsive without being insightful.
— Neal A. Maxwell
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Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act…
— Ann Coulter
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But there are not a few who would be indignant at having their belief in God questioned, who yet seem greatly to fear imagining Him…
— George MacDonald
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If it is ever your misfortune to be attacked, alertness will have given you a little warning, decisiveness will have given you a proper course…
— Jeff Cooper
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When I saw photographs of children murdered by the Fascist, I felt furious pity. When the supporters of Franco talked of Red atrocities, I merely…
— Stephen Spender
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