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I've got my indignation but I'm pure in all my thoughts. — Eddie Vedder

I didn't think you needed rescuing. I just sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity. — Colleen Hoover

Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others — Elbert Hubbard

Your museum of pain. Your sanctuary of justifiable indignation. — Wally Lamb

Monster, I do smell all horse piss, at which
my nose is in great indignation. (IV, 1, lines 223-224) — William Shakespeare

sometimes find it difficult to control my indignation in the presence of absurdity." She — Colleen Hoover

The spirit looks upon the Dust
That fastened it so long
With indignation,
As a Bird
Defrauded of it's Song. — Emily Dickinson

Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation. — Yuri Andropov

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

If a pretty woman only knew how anger improved her beauty! Her complexion needs no other paint than indignation. — Pedro Calderon De La Barca

A good indignation brings out all one's powers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

He seemed to believe that indignation was a sufficient guardian. — Stephen L. Carter

Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. — Susan Sontag

A good indignation makes an excellent speech. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. I do not do booby traps. — Ally Carter

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

The act of taking offence becomes a weapon, and its wielder feels empowered by the false indignation. — Steven Erikson

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. — Vittorio De Sica

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation. — Thomas Carlyle

The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world. — John F. Kennedy

...the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity. — Gabriel Chevallier

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

I think that I feel an indignation when I don't understand something. — John Cleese

Be angry only for a grave cause that rightly calls for indignation,' Maimonides wrote in his Mishneh Torah. What — Simon Schama

I'll go this minute!' Of course, I remained. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. — Andre Gide

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation. — Victor Hugo

Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation. — Doris Lessing

Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat. — Leon Blum

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone

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

In the end indignation over kitsch is anger at tis shameless revelling in the joy of imitation. — Theodor Adorno

[Ilse] was suffering so keenly that she wanted to arraign the universe at the bar of her pain. — L.M. Montgomery

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

I felt a weight on my chest; a sense of hot indignation which settled down into inconceivable melancholy. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. — Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

When I die my death will be caused by indignation at the stupidity of human nature ... — Marie Bashkirtseff

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes. — Chris Evans

Spare me the self-righteous indignation. I highly doubt your motives are selfless. — Jaye Wells

Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying. — Kim Stanley Robinson

Perish the infamous doctrine that man can have property in man. Let us resent with indignation every effort to put a chain upon our minds. — Robert Green Ingersoll

My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation. — Robert Klein

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

It was then I felt a sort of wave of indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood that I was guilty. — Albert Camus

Ron's indignation on his behalf was worth about a hundred points to him. — J.K. Rowling

Indignation leads to the making of poetry.
[Lat., Facit indignatio versum.] — Juvenal

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

Humanity is outraged in me and with me. We must not dissimulate nor try to forget this indignation, which is one of the most passionate forms of love. — George Sand

When talent fails, indignation writes the verse. — Juvenal

If you have the capacity to tremble with indignation every time that an injustice is committed in the world, then we are comrades. — Che Guevara

I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous. — Joshua Oppenheimer

I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation. — Clarence Darrow

Fuck!" She yelled again, but her grin betrayed her indignation. "You fucker." She shoved — C.K. Vile

But why are we always the ones who have to suffer?" she cried out in indignation. "Us and people like us? Ordinary people, the lower middle classes. — Irene Nemirovsky

I frequently feel I'm being taken advantage of merely because I'm asked to do the work I'm paid to do. — Joseph Heller

He saw the world more vividly than other people, and reacted to what he saw with laughter, horror, indignation, and sometimes sobs. — Claire Tomalin

Indignation and compassion form a powerful combination. They are indispensable to vision, and therefore to leadership. — John Stott

Pomposity and indignation grow in old age, like nostril hairs and earlobes. — Stephen Fry

Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man. — Sinclair B. Ferguson

but I am quite sure I should have scouted the notion of her being simply human, like any other young lady, with indignation and contempt. — Charles Dickens

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

There is - I mean - I found early in life that righteous indignation is a little off-putting, and so I try to couch it with humor. — Al Franken

Misery, anger, indignation, discomfort-those conditions produce literature. Contentment-never. So there you are. — T.E. Lawrence

Indignation is often the best defense. — Diane Capri

Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear — Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

The voice of honest indignation is the voice of God. — William Blake

And sometimes the difference between individual and organized indignation is the difference between criminal and political action. — Ralph Ellison

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine. — Ernesto Che Guevara

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

Yet a revolution cannot begin until the diffuse, private indignation of individuals coalesces into a common cause. Beauvoir not only marshaled — Simone De Beauvoir

Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny. — William Godwin

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

Indignation does no good unless it is backed with a club of sufficient size to awe the opposition. — E.W. Howe

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

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

I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation. — W. Somerset Maugham

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

Moral indignation is too precious an export to be wasted at home — Perry Anderson

But bad manners or vulgar gestures can sometimes have a touch of poetry about them, just enough not to arouse one's indignation. — Tahar Ben Jelloun

Her resentment of such behaviour, her indignation at having been its dupe, for a short time made her feel only for herself. — Jane Austen

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation. — Ann Coulter

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. — Malcolm Muggeridge

The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around. — Robert A. Heinlein

Indignation. Best fuel I know. Never burns out. — Irving Stone

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

Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. — Marshall McLuhan

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

My request that my writing be read twice has aroused great indignation. Unjustly so. After all, I do not ask that they be read once. — Karl Kraus

The greatest achievement of the civil-rights movement is that it has restored the dignity of indignation. — Fredric Wertham

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

Teain had no difficulty generating the indignation of a satirist. He lack the patience of a reformer. — H.W. Brands

Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny. — Eduardo Galeano

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

My savage indignation toward injustice is proportionate to my profoundly reverent connection with beauty. — Bryant McGill