Words matter. These are the best Indignation Quotes from famous people such as Robert Klein, Joshua Oppenheimer, Chris Evans, Stephane Hessel, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
My 1974 album ‘Mind Over Matter’ was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.
I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it’s pleasurable because it’s self-righteous.
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
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.
Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.
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.
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.
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.
Malicious attacks on the Soviet Union produce a natural feeling of indignation.
What really raises one’s indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
Indignation must always be the answer to indignity. Reality is not destiny.
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.
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.
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.
A good indignation brings out all one’s powers.
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.’
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.
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.
We trace out all the veins of the earth, and yet, living upon it, undermined as it is beneath our feet, are astonished that it should occasionally cleave asunder or tremble: as though, forsooth, these signs could be any other than expressions of the indignation felt by our sacred parent!
Revolution is engendered by an indignation with tyranny, yet is itself pregnant with tyranny.
You really have to do something Bruce Banner-like to me to cause me to go into my righteous indignation mode.
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.’
One’s life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.
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.
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
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.
Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
