Indignation Quotes - Page 2

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

  T. E. Lawrence

  Contentment, Literature, Misery

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Hunger, Suspicion

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

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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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• Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.

  Elias Canetti

  Home, Heartless, Looks

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• Morris was not the type to offer a hug or even hold your hand. But there was something in his quiet indignation at the universe then--and Luke, now--that was just the kind of comfort I needed. "I'm such a mess," I said. "We're almost off the island and I didn't even ask you where you were going." He shrugged. "No place. Wherever you are.

  Sarah Dessen

  Islands, Hands, Hug

  Sarah Dessen (2013). “The Moon and More”, p.95, Penguin

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• An english baron wed to my daughter? I'll die first, I will." Johanna quit rubbing Claire's shoulder and stepped forward. "A very rich baron," she blurted out. The laird frowned at Johanna with what she thought was indignation. "Wealth is not an issue here," he muttered. "How rich?" They were married an hour later.

  Julie Garwood

  Daughter, Issues, Firsts

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• Nothing is more powerful than meekness. For as fire is extinguished by water, so a mind inflated by anger is subdued by meekness. By meekness we practice and make known our virtue, and also cause the indignation of our brother to cease, and deliver his mind from perturbation.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Brother, Powerful, Anger

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• A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Compassion, Justice, Coins

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “"In a Single Garment of Destiny": A Global Vision of Justice”, p.119, Beacon Press

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• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Thinking, Laughing

  Jane Austen (1864). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.17

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• Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.

  Atifete Jahjaga

  Law, Accountability, Abuse

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• 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.

  Jose Marti

  Greed, Soul, Sun

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• The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

  Elaine Dundy

  Principles, Vehemence, Way

  Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.80, New York Review of Books

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• These people walk by a widow deformed by leprosy...walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, 'Business as usual.' But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story. Their faces go red, their chests heave mightily, they sputter angry words. The degree of their indignation is astonishing. Their resolve is frightening.

  Yann Martel

  Children, Thinking, People

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• And yet every so often, the heart of America, shuddering with indignation, sends a nervous spasm through the gentle back of the Andes, and tumultuous shock waves assault the surface of the land. Three times the cuppola of proud Santo Domingo has collapsed from on high to the rhythm of broken bones and its worn walls have opened and fallen too. But the foundations they rest on are unmoved, the great blocks of the Temple of the Sun exhibit their gray stone indifferently; however colossal the disaster befalling its oppressor, not one of its huge rocks shifts from its place.

  Che Guevara

  Wall, Block, Heart

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• Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.

  J. K. Rowling

  Voice, Bats, Would Be

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

  Eddie Vedder

  My Thoughts, Pure

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