Quotes of Indignation - somelinesforyou

“ I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ”

- Sir William Blake

“ Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath. ”

- Bible

“ A soft answer turneth away wrath: but grievous words stir up anger. ”

- Bible

“ Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. - Unknown. ”

- Unknown

“ Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath, to keep it warm. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. ”

- Vittorio De Sica

“ Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquillity — instead of anger and resentment. ”

- Unknown

“ Get mad, then get over it. ”

- Colin Powell

“ The poor suffer twice at the rioter's hands. First, his destructive fury scars their neighborhood; second, the atmosphere of accommodation and consent is changed to one of hostility and resentment. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ Beware of him that is slow to anger; for when it is long coming, it is the stronger when it comes, and the longer kept. Abused patience turns to fury. ”

- Francis Quarles

“ A soft answer truth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. ”

- Bible

“ To forgive is indeed the best form of self-interest since anger, resentment, and revenge are corrosive of that 'summum bonum,' the greatest good. ”

- Desmond Tutu

“ If we could learn to like ourselves, even a little, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away. ”

- John Steinbeck

“ The sharpest sword is a word spoken in wrath. ”

- Gautama Buddha

“ A mild answer calms wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. ”

- Proverbs

“ Anger is the resentment of the animal, and gentle blood alone makes the gentleman. ”

- Amos Bronson Alcott

“ The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind. ”

- Johann Kaspar Lavater

“ The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish. ”

- Unknown

“ The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish. ”

- Unknown

“ Anger is as a stone cast into a wasp's nest. ”

- Pope Paul VI

“ A soft answer turneth away wrath. Once wrath is looking the other way, shoot it in the head. ”

- Howard Tayler

“ If anger proceeds from a great cause, it turns to fury; if from a small cause, it is peevishness; and so is always either terrible or ridiculous. ”

- Jeremy Taylor

“ Fairest and dearest, your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear; but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously. ”

- Marie de France

“ At the time, 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger. ”

- Jacqueline Bisset

“ 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

“ Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. ”

- Plato

“ The affluence of the rich excites the indignation of the poor, who are often both driven by want, and prompted by envy, to invade his possessions. ”

- Adam Smith

“ 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

“ If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. ”

- Andre Gide
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