Righteous Indignation Quotes

#1. A person who is seeking to feel justification for some action might move from "What you've done angers me" to "What you've done is wrong." Popular justifications include the moral high ground of righteous indignation and the more simple equation known by its biblical name: an eye for an eye.

Gavin De Becker

#2. I find that when I am gossiping about my friends, as well as my enemies, I am deeply conscious of performing a social duty. But when I hear they are gossiping about me, I am rightfully filled with righteous indignation.

Max Gluckman

#3. Look at them running to and fro about the streets, every one of them a scoundrel and a criminal at heart and, worse still, an idiot. But try to get me off and they'd be wild with righteous indignation. Oh, how I hate them all!

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#4. I realized that my righteous indignation was a form of entertainment for me. I loved getting pissed off at injustice. I didn't do anything about it, I just liked the feeling of being pissed off.

Harold Ramis

#5. 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.

Al Franken

#6. An attitude of permanent indignation signifies great mental poverty. Politics compels it votaries to take that line and you can see their minds growing more impoverished every day, from one burst of righteous indignation to the next.

Paul Valery

#7. An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

Malcolm Muggeridge

#8. The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.

Bill Crawford

#9. I still have a righteous indignation at injustice, no matter what form it takes. It could be homophobia, it could be white supremacy, male supremacy, imperial arrogance, class subordination or whatever.

Cornel West

#10. I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous indignation that hides beneath those visages that feign our best interest and deign to think we cannot and will not stand for ourselves.

Corey Taylor

#11. I was so obsessed and consumed with my grievances that I could not get away from myself and think things out in the light. I was in the grip of that blinding, destructive, terrible thing
righteous indignation.

Anzia Yezierska

#12. What is the return on investment of being wedded to your suffering? What do you receive from stewing in victim consciousness? Righteous indignation or an excuse not to change?

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#13. Your heart is burning strong with righteous indignation... That flame is scattering sparks that may set fire elsewhere. That fire of yours will one day spread to others seeking a just world. The point is whether you have a torch in your heart or not. To light a fire to others.

Sui Ishida

#14. Daddy," said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, "you are a poo-poo head!"
Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. "John," he said, "no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head.

Christopher Andersen

#15. Righteous indignation are the very clothes that liars wear

Rassool Jibraeel Snyman

#16. The world isn't fair, but as long as it's tilting in my direction, I find that there's a natural cap to my righteous indignation.

Scott Adams

#17. I am always suspicious of righteous indignation. Nothing is more cruel than righteous indignation.

Clarence Darrow

#18. RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION is a manual and a call to action for awakened patriots who are too intelligent to believe the leftist media lies and distortions ... Breitbart reminds us why we must fight for our country's future by staying true to core values and never retreating.

Sarah Palin

#19. My 1974 album 'Mind Over Matter' was a detailed thing about Watergate. I always had some righteous indignation.

Robert Klein

#20. Righteous indignation is like some kind of drug or religious mania, addictive and stupidifying.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#21. A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#22. In the face of legalized pornography, the conscience of America seems to be paralyzed. More serious than our fakery in art, literature, and pictures is the collapse of our moral standards and the blunting of our capacity as a nation for righteous indignation.

Billy Graham

#23. Sometimes people's spiritual ideas become fixed and they use them against those who don't share their beliefs - in effect, becoming fundamentalist. It's very dangerous - the finger of righteous indignation pointing at someone who is identified as bad or wrong.

Pema Chodron

#24. Spare me the self-righteous indignation. I highly doubt your motives are selfless.

Jaye Wells

#25. Because you wandered away, during daylight hours. After I asked you not to." "Those pauses are unnecessary," I told him. "Not when dealing with your level of righteous indignation.

Molly Harper

#26. What's disgusting about the Dirty Harry movies is that Eastwood plays this angry tension as righteous indignation.

Pauline Kael

#27. Oh, foisted, is it?" cried Mr. Ormiston in righteous indignation. "Such a word! And if it means what I think it does, young man, you should get down on your knees and thank God for such foistingness!

Diana Gabaldon

#28. Judging others is too often escapism dressed in the garb of righteous indignation, whereby I dutifully point out in others that which I probably should be pointing out in myself.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#29. Jesus will not accept the common distinction between righteous indignation and unjustifiable anger. The disciple must be entirely innocent of anger, because anger is an offence against both God and his neighbour.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#30. Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others

Elbert Hubbard

#31. Anger can be a bitterness that devours your soul while righteous indignation is morally driven, it's ethically driven.

Cornel West

#32. [...] as with all vices, vast and lucrative industries are ready to supply the necessary material. It sometimes seems as if most of the news consists of outrage porn, selected specifically to pander to our impulse to judge and punish, to get us off on righteous indignation.

Tim Kreider

#33. Giving to others is most precious when it is done quietly and selflessly.
Righteous indignation is like candy when you're starving. It feels good, but it doesn't sustain you very long.

Daniel Gottlieb

#34. The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

Mark Levin

#35. 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.

Azar Nafisi

#36. I think that indignation is pleasurable, and it's pleasurable because it's self-righteous.

Joshua Oppenheimer