Definition of Indignation

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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. Related Definitions: Abhorrence, Anger, Base, By, Contempt, Disgraceful, Disgust, Effect, Excited, Feeling, Is, Mingled, Of, Or, Punishment, That, The, Unworthy, Which, With

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

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

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

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

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.
Jose Marti

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.
Robert Peel

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Malcolm Muggeridge

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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