Indignation Quotes

124 quotes by 113 authors

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
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate… — George Sand
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind,… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. — Victor Hugo
There is in every breast a sensibility to marks of honor, of favor, of esteem, and of confidence, which, apart from all considerations of interest,… — James Madison
The gross perversion and destruction of motherhood by the abortionist filled me with indignation, and awakened active antagonism. That the honorable term 'female physician' should… — Elizabeth Blackwell
Are we not all shipwrecked,...condemned to death?... However impatient our neighbours make us, however much indignation our race arouses, we are all bound together, and… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The sober people of America are weary of the fluctuating policy which has directed the public councils. They have seen with regret and indignation that… — James Madison
I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those… — Corey Taylor
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. — Vittorio De Sica
The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating… — Aldous Huxley
A man who cannot get angry is like a stream that cannot overflow, that is always turbid. Sometimes indignation is as good as a thunderstorm… — Henry Ward Beecher
The Constitution is said to have beautiful features; but when I come to examine these features, Sir, they appear to me horribly frightful. Among other… — Patrick Henry
Men's indignation, it seems, is more exited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second… — Thucydides
Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt),… — John MacLachlan Gray
But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent,… — John F. Kennedy
Men's and nations' finest hour consist of those moments when extraordinary challenge is met by extraordinary response. Hence in those darkest hours, we must light… — Neal A. Maxwell
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I… — Frederick Douglass
Indeed, I have observed one ingredient, somewhat necessary in a manâ€™s composition towards happiness, which people of feeling would do well to acquire; a certain… — Henry Mackenzie

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