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  • Samuel Johnson Is Indignant:that Scotland has so few trees.

    Lydia Davis (2002). “Samuel Johnson Is Indignant: Stories”, p.44, Macmillan
  • To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

    People   Use   Stones  
  • somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

    Moving   Men   Bird  
    William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.192, Simon and Schuster
  • Liberals become indignant when you question their patriotism, but simultaneously work overtime to give terrorists a cushion for the next attack and laugh at dumb Americans who love their country and hate the enemy.

    Love   Country   Hate  
    "Liberalism and terrorism: Different stages of same disease?" by Ann Coulter, www.jewishworldreview.com. July 4, 2002.
  • Words mean nothing to liberals. They say whatever will help advance their cause at the moment, switch talking points in a heartbeat, and then act indignant if anyone uses the exact same argument they were using five minutes ago.

    Mean   Talking   Use  
  • A traveler amid the scenery of the Alps, surrounded by the sublimest demonstration of God's power, had the hardihood to write against his name, in an album kept for visitors, "An atheist." Another who followed, shocked and indignant at the inscription, wrote beneath it, If an atheist, a fool; if not, a liar!

    Atheist   Liars   Writing  
  • Behold, O Lord, that I am indignant with myself, for my senseless, profitless, hurtful, perilous passions; that I loathe myself, for these inordinate, unseemly, deformed, false, shameful, disgraceful passions; that my confusion is daily before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me. Alas! woe, woe! O me, how long?

    Lancelot Andrewes (bp. of Winchester.) (1883). “The private devotions of Lancelot Andrewes”
  • Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

    The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2
  • Too often people enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought, never taking a principled stand. True justice will never come until those who are not injured are just as indignant as those who are

  • I scarcely remember any writer who has ever ventured to say that the half of the work of the world is actually accomplished by women; and very few husbands who would be otherwise than greatly startled and amazed, if not indignant, if not derisive, at the suggestion of such an idea as that the work of their wives was equal to their own.

    Husband   Work   Equality  
  • When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

    Age   Indignant   Old Age  
  • What really makes one indignant about suffering isn't the thing itself but the senselessness of it.

  • Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.

    Worry   Genius   Littles  
    "The Meaning of Culture". Book by John Cowper Powys, p. 134, 1929.
  • My parents often wondered why I would grow so indignant at the falsification and exploitation of the Nazi genocide. The most obvious answer is that it has been used to justify criminal policies of the Israeli state and US support for these policies.

    "The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering". Book by Norman Finkelstein, 2000.
  • The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.

  • No one is such a liar as the indignant man.

    Liars   Men   Indignant  
    Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL - Prelude to a Philosophy of the Future: The Critique of the Traditional Morality and the Philosophy of the Past”, p.22, e-artnow
  • I grew up on musicals, and I know they are quite the thing now, but I'm actually a little indignant, because I started taking singing lessons years ago - I put the time in!

    Years   Singing   Littles  
  • If the ordinary wage-earner worked four hours a day, there would be enough for everybody, and no unemployment — assuming a certain very moderate amount of sensible organization. This idea shocks the well-to-do, because they are convinced that the poor would not know how to use so much leisure.

    Philosophy   Son   Men  
    "In praise of idleness: and other essays".
  • Pride dries the tears of anger and vexation; humility, those of grief. The one is indignant that we should suffer; the other calms us by the reminder that we deserve nothing else.

    Grief   Humility   Pride  
  • While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.

    "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing: The Struggle for the Legacy of Ruben Betancourt". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 23, 2010.
  • Chinese people are indignant. Indignant! For decades, despite everything, they tried to make peace with the West. They are in fact the most peaceful big nation on Earth and what do they get in return? They get insults, provocations and intimidation.

    Source: www.counterpunch.org
  • Most of the ladies and gentlemen who mourn the passing of the nation's leaders wouldn't know a leader if they saw one. If they had the bad luck to come across a leader, they would find out that he might demand something from them, and this impertinence would put an abrupt and indignant end to their wish for his return.

    Leader   Gentleman   Luck  
  • Y’all might as well come on out,” I said. “I know you’re there. I can smell you.” “Smell me? But I just took a shower this morning!” an indignant voice drifted out of the shadows. There was a loud sound, like someone was getting smacked upside the head. Then another voice let out a low mutter. “Shut up, idiot.

    Morning   Voice   Smell  
    Jennifer Estep (2012). “By a Thread”, p.353, Simon and Schuster
  • One might feel indignant at the injustice which deals out what is called fame with so unequal a hand, were it not for the reflection that men who are competent to add to the intellectual wealth of the world, and enlarge the domain of knowledge, have learned to take popular applause at its true value, and to find in the faithful discharge of honorable duty a satisfaction which is its own reward.

    Men   Reflection   Hands  
    George Stillman Hillard (1864). “Life and Campaigns of George B. McClellan, Major-general U. S. Army”, p.41, Gale Cengage Learning
  • These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

    Music   Men   Pigs  
  • The suggestion that liberals aren't moralizers is so preposterous it makes it hard for me to take any of them seriously when they wax indignant about "moralizers." Almost every day, they tell us what is moral or immoral to think and to say about race, taxes, abortion - you name it. They explain it would be immoral for me to spend more of my own money on my own children when that money could be spent by government on other people's children. In short, they think moralizing is fine. They just want to have a monopoly on the franchise.

  • I'm going to turn fifteen tomorrow," i said, warming to the idea. "It's high time. I can't remember when i turned fourteen." (said by Max) If you get to be fifteen, then i get to be fifteen!" Iggy sounded indignant. i looked at Fang. "Wanna be fifteen?" His smile melted me. "Yeah.

    Ideas   Max   Fifteen  
  • At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

    People   Scary   Want  
    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • The objection of the scandalmonger is not that she tells of racy doings, but that she pretends to be indignant about them.

  • I thought you'd gotten over your whoring when you left him, Catherine, but it seems you only postponed it." Bones' face turned to stone, and he answered her even before I could snap out an indignant response. "Don't you ever speak to her that way again." There was pure warning in the whip of his words. "You can call me any name you like and more, but I will not stand by while you slander her out of your own ignorance.

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