Quotes about indignation

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.
- Paul Harvey

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
- Erich Fromm

Indignation at literary wrongs I leave to men born under happier stars. I cannot afford it.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.
- Sarah Rees Brennan

People are eager to express their values as immigrants and also to show their indignation.
- Maria Jimenez

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

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
- Bertrand Russell

Censors are infused with the sentiment of moral indignation – a dangerous and misleading sentiment because, by blinding those who voice it to the real reasons for their indignation, it makes them puppets whose fears can be manipulated for ends and purposes they do not foresee or intend.
- Carey McWilliams

Washington DC is happiest when in indignation overdrive.
- George F. Will

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

In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation.
- Billy Graham

I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.
- Max Gluckman

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
- Conor Cruise O'Brien

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
- H.G. Wells

Oscar Wilde summed up the indignation: A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
- Leslie Jamison

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

America has lost its capacity for being indignant. Where has our capacity for indignation gone? When a nation loses its respect for the Constitution and its treaties, what is next? And leaving even that aside, the next American serviceman who is being tortured and we can't go to his rescue will show us exactly what we have done.
- Cherif Bassiouni

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.
- Charles Caleb Colton

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, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering
- Friedrich Nietzsche

It's time to unfriend some people in real life.