Indignation Quotes - Page 2

• It's all a play. Hiroshima and Nagasaki happen, there are hundreds of thousands of dead, and the curtain comes down, and that's the end of that. Then Korea happens. Vietnam happens, all that happened in Latin America happens. And every now and then, this curtain comes down and history begins anew. New moralities and new indignations are manufactured...in a disappeared history.

  Arundhati Roy

  Latin, Hiroshima And Nagasaki, Korea

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Now how do we cultivate an aggressive response? I think the answer is indignation... Your response, if attacked, must not be fear, it must be anger.

  Jeff Cooper

  Thinking, Answers, Self Defense

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.25, Paladin Press

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• Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are.

  T. E. Lawrence

  Contentment, Literature, Misery

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• If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'

  Stephane Hessel

  Real, Men, People

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• Why is it that there's more indignation over a photo of a prisoner with underwear on his head than over the video of a young American with no head at all?

  Zell Miller

  Underwear, Video, Politics

  Zell Miller (2005). “Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character”, p.113, Xulon Press

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• Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Technique, Moral, Dignity

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• Hey!” I said, indignation filling me. “I’m immortal! Doesn’t that mean I won’t get saggy boobs and gray hair? Because if it doesn’t mean that, I want a refund—

  Katie MacAlister

  Mean, Hair, Hey

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• Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Reality, Destiny, Answers

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• The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.

  Paul Harvey

  Political, Politician, Gravity

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• A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Hate, Anger, Power

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1960). “Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks: 1841-1843”, p.134, Harvard University Press

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• Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hunger, Suspicion

  Thomas Carlyle (1837). “Collected Works”, p.304

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• Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

  Cornel West

  Soul, Bitterness, Driven

  Source: genius.com

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• 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 in summer, clearing and cooling the air.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Summer, Anger, Men

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• 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 someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, People, Promise

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• 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 the companions of a chain-gang have everything to lose by mutual insults.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Philosophical, Race, Together

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• We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

  Henry James

  Practice, Generosity, Novel

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• What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Men, Tolerance

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage

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• 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 visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.

  Corey Taylor

  Memorable, Tired, Thinking

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• 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 sudden changes and legislative interferences, in cases affecting personal rights, become jobs in the hands of enterprising and influential speculators, and snares to the more-industrious and less informed part of the community. They have seen, too, that one legislative interference is but the first link of a long chain of repetitions, every subsequent interference being naturally produced by the effects of the preceding.

  James Madison

  Trust, Jobs, Regret

  Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2017). “The Origin of the Nation: Declaration of Independence, Constitution, Bill of Rights and Other Amendments, Federalist Papers & Common Sense: Creating America - Landmark Documents that Shaped a New Nation”, p.266, Madison & Adams Press

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• Shahid has grown increasingly committed to the art of indignation, waking up in the morning with an expression of incipient disgust already in stock for all the affronts he will surely encounter during the course of the day.

  Sara Suleri

  Morning, Art, Expression

  Sara Suleri (2018). “Meatless Days”, p.89, Penguin UK

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• 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 like being compelled by a superior.

  Thucydides

  Men, Looks, Firsts

  Thucydides (1965). “History of the Peloponnesian War”, p.38, Hayes Barton Press

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• 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), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.

  John MacLachlan Gray

  Regret, Emotional, Vocabulary

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• I hardly know a sight that raises one's indignation more than that of an enlarged soul joined to a contracted fortune; unless it be that so much more common one, of a contracted soul joined to an enlarged fortune.

  Sir Fulke Greville

  Sight, Soul, Common

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• The object of a comedy is not to correct morals or ridicule the vices of society; no, a comedy should depict the discrepancies between life and purpose, should be the fruit of bitter indignation aroused by the degradation of human dignity, should be sarcasm, and not an epigram, convulsive laughter and not an amused grin, should be written with bile and not diluted salt, in a word, it should embrace life in its highest significance.

  Vissarion Belinsky

  Laughter, Sarcasm, Discrepancies Between

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• The soldier is on friendlier terms than other men with his stomach and intestines. Three-quarters of his vocabulary is derived from these regions, and they give an intimate flavour to expressions of his greatest joy as well as of his deepest indignation. It is impossible to express oneself in any other way so clearly and pithily. Our families and our teachers will be shocked when we go home, but here it is the universal language.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Teacher, Home, Men

  Erich Maria Remarque (2000). “All quiet on the western front and related readings”

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