Righteous Indignation Quotes - Page 2

• Righteous Indignation is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions... Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country's future by staying true to core values and never retreating.

  Sarah Palin

  Country, Lying, Believe

  "Palin plugs Breitbart's book" by Juana Summers, www.politico.com. March 2, 2011.

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• The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.

  Scott Adams

  Long, World, Natural

  "Dilbert blog: The Benefits of Getting Old". August 2006.

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• An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Looks, Mist, Righteous

  'The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge' (1966) 'Dolce Vita in a Cold Climate'

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• Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

  Conor Cruise O'Brien

  Men, History, Apathy

  "The Columbia Book of Quotations" edited by Robert Andrews, Columbia University Press, (p. 900), 1993.

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• My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling.

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Grief, Sleep, Heart

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• Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?

  Norman Cousins

  Peace, War, World

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• Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Submission, Our Thoughts

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

  Leland Stanford

  Selfish, Men, Views

  "Social insight rings true 125 years on" by Lee Altenberg, "Nature", vol. 490, p. 487, October 25, 2012.

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• One of the great triumphs of the nineteenth century was to limit the connotation of the word "immoral" in such a way that, for practical purposes, only those were immoral who drank too much or made too copious love. Those who indulged in any or all of the other deadly sins could look down in righteous indignation on the lascivious and the gluttonous.... In the name of all lechers and boozers I most solemnly protest against the invidious distinction made to our prejudice.

  Aldous Huxley

  Names, Triumph, Prejudice

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• My god! people say. You have so much self-control! And later: My god. You're so, so sick. When people say this, they turn their heads, you've won your little game. You have proven your thesis that no-body-loves-me-every-body-hates-me, guess-I'll-just-eat-worms. You get to sink back into your hospital bed, shrieking with righteous indignation. See? you get to say. I knew you'd give up on me. I knew you'd leave.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Suicide, Giving Up, Hate

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• What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

  Pauline Kael

  Dirty, Play, Righteous

  Pauline Kael (1989). “Hooked”, E P Dutton

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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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• A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth.

  Lloyd Banks

  Looks, Breaking Silence, Poverty

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