Definition of Indignation
Indignation
The feeling excited by that which is unworthy, base, or disgraceful; anger mingled with contempt, disgust, or abhorrence.
The effect of anger; punishment.
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Indignation Quotations
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H. G. Wells
Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world?
Norman Cousins
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
Bertrand Russell
It has been the acknowledged right of every Marxist scholar to read into Marx the particular meaning that he himself prefers and to treat all others with indignation.
John Kenneth Galbraith
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
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
Men's indignation, it seems, is more excited by legal wrong than by violent wrong; the first looks like being cheated by an equal, the second like being compelled by a superior.
Thucydides
Indignation Translations
indignation in French is indignation
indignation in Italian is sdegno
indignation in Latin is indignatio
indignation in Norwegian is harme
indignation in Swedish is harm
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