Indignation

When I remember a few lines of poetry, when I recall some sublime painting, my spirit is roused to indignation and spurns the vain sustenance of the common herd.

— Indignation

So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins. It is righteousness that exalteth a nation while sin is a reproach to any people.

— Indignation

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

— Indignation

One cannot suppress a certain indignation when one sees men’s actions on the great world-stage and finds, beside the wisdom that appears here and there among individuals, everything in the large woven together from folly, childish vanity, even from childish malice and destructiveness.

— Indignation

Atrocity on a mass scale has become impersonal and official; moral indignation as a public fact has become extinct or made trivial.

— Indignation

The Greeks have a word for indignation at another’s unhappiness: this affect was inadmissible among Christian peoples and failed to develop, so they also lack a name for this more manly brother of pity.

— Indignation

The stupidity of moral indignation, which is the unfailing sign in a philosopher that his philosophical sense of humor has left him.

— Indignation

He that is angry without cause, shall be in danger; but he that is angry with cause, shall not be in danger: for without anger, teaching will be useless, judgments unstable, crimes unchecked. ... To be angry is therefore not always an evil.

— Indignation

Many of the noisiest are more interested in their indignation than in the injustice.

— Indignation