Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

A good indignation makes an excellent speech.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

A good indignation brings out all one's powers.

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

If merited, no courage can stand against its just indignation.

Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

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

If you tremble with indignation at every injustice, then you are a comrade of mine.

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

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

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

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

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

You really have to do something Bruce Banner-like to me to cause me to go into my righteous indignation mode.

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

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

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

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

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.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

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.

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?

I've always been 100%. I don't grandstand for the cameras. I don't have fake outrage or indignation. No tricks, no screaming or throwing my leg on the floor.

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

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

It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.

Black prophetic fire is the hypersensitivity to the suffering of others that generates a righteous indignation that results in the willingness to live and die for freedom.

Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.

Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and makes them complements in the attack against existing society.

I wish for you all, each of you, to have your own motive for indignation. This is precious. When something outrages you as I was outraged by Nazism, then people become militant, strong, and involved.

I appeal to you, my friends, as mothers: are you willing to enslave your children? You stare back with horror and indignation at such questions. But why, if slavery is not wrong to those upon whom it is imposed?

The Tea Party grew out of indignation over the Wall Street bailout - an indignation shared by the vast majority of Americans. But the Tea Party ended up directing its ire at government rather than at big business and Wall Street.

Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation.

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Folklore has a moral center to it. Folklore is always, always, always on the side of the underdog, and children have a natural instinct towards justice. They feel indignation at needless cruelty and wistfulness about acts of mercy and kindness.

The American people want something terse, forcible, picturesque, striking - something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sympathy, arouse their indignation, stimulate their imagination, convince their reason, awaken their conscience.

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.

Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.

There was a widespread indignation in the American media. They were saying, 'How can you make a movie during an election that's about politics? What are you doing? Are you trying to influence people's lives?' To which my response was, 'Well, I hope so.'

President Obama has now had his Nixonian 'I'm not a crook' moment, taking to the airwaves to feign angry indignation about the Internal Revenue Service targeting his enemies while denying any knowledge whatsoever of what his administration had been up to.

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