Indignant Quotes

• No one lies so boldly as the man who is indignant.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Lying, Men

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• The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.

  Bill Crawford

  Feelings, Problem, Righteous

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• Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

  Ann Coulter

  Love, Country, Hate

  "Liberalism and terrorism: Different stages of same disease?" by Ann Coulter, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 4, 2002.

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• Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Happiness, Philosophical, Acceptance

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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 more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Inspirational, Education, Memorable

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• When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children.

  William Feather

  Children, Lying, Moral

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• You must learn, day by day, year by year, to broaden your horizon.

  Ethel Barrymore

  Years, Advice, New Horizons

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• These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Music, Men, Pigs

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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 not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

  Julia Ormond

  People, Scary, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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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 lessons years ago - I put the time in!

  Marisa Tomei

  Years, Singing, Littles

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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 between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

  John Cowper Powys

  Worry, Genius, Littles

  "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.

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• Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

  H. G. Wells

  Jealousy, Witty, Humorous

  The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2

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• Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley, have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Men, Realizing, Goodness

  "The Defendant". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1901.

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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 the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Leader, Gentleman, Luck

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• Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.

  Willa Cather

  Sports, Mean, Tiny

  Willa Cather (1970). “The World and the Parish: Willa Cather's Articles and Reviews, 1893-1902”, U of Nebraska Press

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• Children of the future age Reading this indignant page Know that in a former time Love, sweet love, was thought a crime

  William Blake

  Sweet, Children, Reading

  'Songs of Experience' (1794) 'A Little Girl Lost'

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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 loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Government, Views, Class

  The Guardian, May 23, 1992.

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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 indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.

  Ann Coulter

  Mean, Talking, Use

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• While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

  Jacob M. Appel

  Order, Organization, People

  "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.

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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

  Gossip, Doings, Objections

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• A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!

  George Barrell Cheever

  Atheist, Liars, Writing

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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 to pursue, and if that course is to counterattack, carry it out with everything you've got! Be indignant. Be angry. Be aggressive.

  Jeff Cooper

  Warning, Littles, Alertness

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.26, Paladin Press

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• It is perfectly natural for the future woman to feel indignant at the limitations posed upon her by her sex. The real question is not why she should reject them: the problem is rather to understand why she accepts them.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Sex, Real, Perfectly Natural

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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 just what you are doing when you allow your indignation to rise at their wrongdoing; for after all, they are only following their own apparent concerns and interests. You say they are mistaken? Why then, tell them so, and explain it to them, instead of being indignant.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Men, Privilege, Imagine

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