Quotes with indignation

  • 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?

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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • William Butler Yeats Hate is a kind of 'passive suffering', but indignation is a kind of joy.
    William Butler Yeats
    Irish poet (1865 - 1939)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Angelina Grimke 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?
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • Bertrand Russell Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Conor Cruise O'Brien Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.
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  • H.G. Wells Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
    H.G. Wells
    British-born American author (1866 - 1946)
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  • Elizabeth Gaskell 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.
    Elizabeth Gaskell
    British writer (1810 - 1865)
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  • Simone de Beauvoir One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.
    Simone de Beauvoir
    French writer and philosopher (1908 - 1986)
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  • Angelina Grimke 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.
    Angelina Grimke
    American activists and female advocates of abolition and women's rights (1805 - 1879)
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  • G.W.F. Hegel Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.
    G.W.F. Hegel
    German philosopher (1770 - 1831)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Edmund Burke The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
    Edmund Burke
    English politician and philosopher (1729 - 1797)
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  • Victor Hugo There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.
    Victor Hugo
    French writer (1802 - 1885)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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