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“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.”
― Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
― Man for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics
“It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?"
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.”
― The Agony and the Ecstasy
"Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out.”
― The Agony and the Ecstasy
“I'm an agent of Her Majesty's Secret Service. I do not do booby traps.”
― Out of Sight, Out of Time
― Out of Sight, Out of Time
“Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting”
― All Quiet on the Western Front
― All Quiet on the Western Front
“There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a common cause, and that if enough people put their minds and bodies into that cause, they can win. It is a phenomenon recorded again and against in the history of popular movements against injustice all over the world.”
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
― You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
“Bad luck with women is a determined man's road to success. For every affliction, he makes, out of indignation, yet another advancement in order to exceed the man that the woman chose over him. This goes to show that great men are made great because they once learned how to fight the feeling of rejection.”
― Venus in Arms
― Venus in Arms
“The best things in history are accomplished by people who get tired of being shoved around.”
― Have Space Suit—Will Travel
― Have Space Suit—Will Travel
“I frequently feel I'm being taken advantage of merely because I'm asked to do the work I'm paid to do.”
― Something Happened
― Something Happened
“There was a silence. Elliot was surprised, because he would have thought the sound of every atom in his body exploding with indignation might make some noise.”
― The Turn of the Story
― The Turn of the Story
“I went on and on, and as I continued, I became more righteous in my indignation. It was the sort of anger one gets high on, the kind one takes home to show off to family and friends.”
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
― Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
“Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. How much more is this true of legally constituted states, invested with all this seeming moral authority of parliaments and congresses and courts of justice! The destructive capacity of an individual, however vicious, is small; of the state, however well-intentioned, almost limitless. Expand the state and the destructive capacity necessarily expands too. Collective righteousness is far more ungovernable than any individual pursuit of revenge. That was a point well understood by Woodrow Wilson, who warned: 'Once lead this people into war and they'll forget there ever was such a thing as tolerance.”
― Modern Times : A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000
― Modern Times : A History of the World from the 1920s to the Year 2000
“I sometimes cannot understand how she can love another, how she dares love another, when I love nothing in this world so completely, so devotedly, as I love her, when I know only her, and have no other possession.”
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
― The Sorrows of Young Werther
“I claim no victory. But there was blood on my gloves when I hung them up. When was the last time you did a story like that, out of pure indignation?”
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
― Zen in the Art of Writing: Releasing the Creative Genius Within You
“Happy be Thy world
The world forgetting by the forgotten world;
The failed attempts to remember the need to forget;
Naturally, Eventually, Gradually, Usually, Finally ; Thy Allies will accompany you and end this Abruptly.
For Thy, it may seem simple;
Oh Shameless Crook! Thy have done it before and will do it again and when thy does it -- seems that only the innocence weeps.”
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The world forgetting by the forgotten world;
The failed attempts to remember the need to forget;
Naturally, Eventually, Gradually, Usually, Finally ; Thy Allies will accompany you and end this Abruptly.
For Thy, it may seem simple;
Oh Shameless Crook! Thy have done it before and will do it again and when thy does it -- seems that only the innocence weeps.”
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“Nafsha is so concerned with my virginity. I am beginning to think she would wed me herself. Alas, the only tool she might use to make me a woman is her tongue -- and it is far too sharp for me to allow it beneath my skirts.”
― Daughter of Sand and Stone
― Daughter of Sand and Stone
“It’s an embarrassing fact that we are more afraid of embarrassment than a host of other discomforts, but it isn’t less true for all that. How often have you refrained from voicing hope or indignation for fear of being dismissed as childish? Oddly enough, that fear is adolescent, born of a time when few things feel worse than being regarded as a less grown-up than your peers.”
― Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
― Why Grow Up?: Subversive Thoughts for an Infantile Age
“I can never do justice to the great feeling of amazement and encouragement I felt when, perhaps for the first time in American history, white citizens of a Southern state banded together to come to Selma and show their indignation about the injustices against the African-Americans.”
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“...the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.”
― Clochemerle (Ldp Litterature)
― Clochemerle (Ldp Litterature)
“You judge the mistakes of others with indignation and distain in a demeaning manner; your mistakes, are littered with rationalizations and excuses, with indignation for those aware. And void of regrets.”
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“I ken who you are! You're Strathfearn's granddaughter. Julie Stuart, is it? Och, aye, Lady Julia! Well then, Lady Julia, tell me -- who don't you deserve a glass of water?”
― The Pearl Thief
― The Pearl Thief
“Daniel Redfern laughs, the first real laugh I've ever heard from him, and I am put out. I am much funnier than Katherine. - Jane”
― Deathless Divide
― Deathless Divide
“We Neopalians like a man who can be angry, and I began to think you never would.’
‘I am not the least angry,’ said I with great indignation. I hate being told that I am angry when I am merely showing firmness.”
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‘I am not the least angry,’ said I with great indignation. I hate being told that I am angry when I am merely showing firmness.”
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“Lincoln, Susan B. Anthony, Gandhi, King, Havel, Mandela, and many other memorable leaders have found in righteous indignation the psychological edge they needed to endure years of doubt and trial. However, such an emotion is not something everyone can control, and it has, when unleashed, enough destructive energy to turn grand potential to failure.”
― Fascism: A Warning
― Fascism: A Warning
“Blowpipes and darts——heathen, I call it,” said Mrs. Mitchell.
“You are right,” said Poirot, addressing her with a flattering air of being struck by her remarks. “Not so is an English murder committed.”
“You’re right, sir.”
― Death in the Clouds
“You are right,” said Poirot, addressing her with a flattering air of being struck by her remarks. “Not so is an English murder committed.”
“You’re right, sir.”
― Death in the Clouds
“It is very difficult to make people understand the impersonal indignation that a decay of writing can cause men who understand what it implies, and the end whereto it leads. It is almost impossible to express any degree of such indignation without being called 'embittered', or something of that sort.”
― ABC of Reading
― ABC of Reading
“One of my greatest fears is I will die without finding a single soul who knows what to do with all this fire behind my eyes.”
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