Indignation Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton Download Open image “A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.” — Gilbert K. Chesterton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Indignation Puritan Righteous Righteous indignation Wrong things
A Puritan is someone who is desperately afraid that, somewhere, someone might be having a good time. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
A puritan is such a one as loves God with all his soul, but hates his neighbor with all his heart. — Adam Nicolson Copy Share Image
I'm always disappointed when I see the word 'Puritan' tossed around as shorthand for a bunch of generic, boring, stupid, judgmental killjoys. Because to… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Puritanism was an honourable mood; it was a noble fad. In other words, it was a highly creditable mistake. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Convinced that character is all and circumstances nothing, [the Puritan] sees in the poverty of those who fall by the way, not a misfortune… — R. H. Tawney Copy Share Image
You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment -… — James Young Copy Share Image
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
When you think about Puritanism, you must begin by getting rid of the slang term 'Puritanism' as applied to Victorian religious hypocrisy. This does… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
The Puritans came to America to worship in their way and to force everybody else to do the same thing. — Sam Levenson Copy Share Image
The aim of good prose words is to mean what they say. The aim of good poetical words is to mean what they do… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Youth is always too serious, and just now it is too serious about frivolity. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Tradition does not mean a dead town; it does not mean that the living are dead but that the dead are alive. It means… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everyone seems to assume that the unscrupulous parts of journalism will be the frivolous or jocular parts. This is against all ethical experience. Jokes… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
For Scotland has a double dose of the poison called heredity; the sense of blood in the aristocrat, the sense of doom in the… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Faith is always at a disadvantage; it is a perpetually defeated thing which survives all conquerors. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The triangle of truisms, of father, mother and child, cannot be destroyed; it can only destroy those civilizations which disregard it. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Criticism is only words about words, and of what use are words about such words as these? — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place...The old humility was a spur that prevented a man from stopping; not a… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton 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 are solutions.… — Atifete Jahjaga Copy Share Image
Dr. Arnold . . . the admired reformer of public schools, came across some cranks who thought it a mistake to flog boys. Anyone… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Indignation leads to the making of poetry. [Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] — Juvenal Copy Share Image
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and… — Sarah Palin Copy Share Image
There is something on earth greater than arbitrary or despotic power. The lightning has its power, and the whirlwind has its power, and the… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
See, I don’t expect to win a prize for stoic control and dignity at mourning time. Death deserve tantrums. Beating back shocked indignation, kicks… — Ruby Dee 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 truly patient… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
I do not know how the affair at Canterbury is generally considered; but I have heard individuals of all parties and all opinions speak… — Lydia M. Child Copy Share Image
You can't dwell on what happened. You can't live even a moment stewing in bitterness. — Apolo Ohno Copy Share Image
“Lewis Richardson wrote that his quest to analyze peace with numbers sprang from two prejudices. As a Quaker, he believed that "the moral evil… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
I have been into many of the ancient cathedrals - grand, wonderful, mysterious. But I always leave them with a feeling of indignation because… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
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