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Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda. – Bertrand Russell	added by Normando 1 year ago
Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots. – J. Petit-Senn	added by anonymous 2 years ago
If I let all this get into my head, I would not have been able to stand working in the ministry from the first week. There are bots, there are people who do not understand, they need somewhere to post their indignation. – Ukraine Health Minister Zoriana Skaletska	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference? – John Adams	added by Normando 4 years ago
The president has instructed me to ensure that Mexico's indignation translates into... efficient, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to take a role and demand that conditions are established that protect... Mexicans in the United States. – Marcelo Ebrard	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Moral indignation is in most cases 2% moral, 48% indignation and 50% envy. – Vittorio De Sica	added by Normando 5 years ago
Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts and condemned to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the sunlight of happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living and to fill our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness. It comes to bring us evil - only evil - and that continually. Let us rise in our might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall never hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs. – Roger Quarles Mills	added by Normando 5 years ago
Reporters Without Borders expresses its sharp indignation on learning of the Ukrainian secret service's manipulation carried out as part of an information war, it is always very dangerous for states to play with facts and especially on the backs of journalists. – Christophe Deloire	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
For this reason, with all humility I ask your forgiveness, i reiterate my sincere and profound apology for the offense and indignation I have caused you. – Pena Nieto	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Today is the day of indignation. It's the day of a lack of democratic respect, the day of authoritarianism, i felt like a political prisoner this morning. – Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
He has a righteous indignation, the same fire in the belly that I have, when he came to Cleveland State University he said to a majority white crowd that as the next President he would work to eradicate institutional racism. He has a boldness that the party needs. – Nina Turner	Found on CNN 8 years ago
If Nikos Mihaloliakos add the migrant crisis to huge disappointment and great pressures in every day life Nikos Mihaloliakos realize the environment favors them, it's more than a protest vote - it's a vote of indignation, of anger against the political system, against daily life. – Costas Panagopoulos	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I'm coming out to show my indignation. – Francisco Mosack	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We hear all about budget cuts, but so far it's only hurting people like me, i'm coming out to show my indignation. – Francisco Mosack	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We are here to express our indignation with the government-sponsored corruption and thieving, and to demand Dilma's impeachment, she may have not been directly involved in the corruption at Petrobras, but she certainly knew about it, and for me that makes her just as guilty and justifies her ouster. – Andre Menezes	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
This indignation and breast-beating over this letter is absolute nonsense. – Jim Risch	Found on CNN 9 years ago
Such act of terrorism is outrageous and impermissible, which causes me nothing but strong indignation. – Shoichi Yukawa	Found on CNN 9 years ago
If true, the act of threat in exchange of people's lives is unforgivable and we feel strong indignation, we will make our utmost effort to win their release as soon as possible. – Chief Cabinet Secretary	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
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	added by anonymous 9 years ago
Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. – Bertrand Russell	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them. – Antonin Artaud	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Justice will only exist where those not affected by injustice are filled with the same amount of indignation as those offended. – Plato	added by anonymous 13 years ago
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	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of power. Consequently those who live under the dominion of Puritanism become exceedingly desirous of power. Now love of power does far more harm than love of drink or any of the other vices against which Puritans protest. Of course, in virtuous people love of power camouflages itself as love of doing good, but this makes very little difference to its social effects. It merely means that we punish our victims for being wicked, instead of for being our enemies. In either case, tyranny and war result. Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister uses by those who control propaganda.

– Bertrand Russell

added by Normando
1 year ago

Loud indignation against vice often stands for virtue in the eyes of bigots.

– J. Petit-Senn

added by anonymous
2 years ago

If I let all this get into my head, I would not have been able to stand working in the ministry from the first week. There are bots, there are people who do not understand, they need somewhere to post their indignation.

– Ukraine Health Minister Zoriana Skaletska

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Human nature itself is evermore an advocate for liberty. There is also in human nature a resentment of injury, and indignation against wrong. A love of truth and a veneration of virtue. These amiable passions, are the latent spark... If the people are capable of understanding, seeing and feeling the differences between true and false, right and wrong, virtue and vice, to what better principle can the friends of mankind apply than to the sense of this difference?

– John Adams

added by Normando
4 years ago

The president has instructed me to ensure that Mexico's indignation translates into... efficient, prompt, expeditious and forceful legal actions for Mexico to take a role and demand that conditions are established that protect... Mexicans in the United States.

– Marcelo Ebrard

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

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

– Vittorio De Sica

added by Normando
5 years ago

Prohibition was introduced as a fraud; it has been nursed as a fraud. It is wrapped in the livery of Heaven, but it comes to serve the devil. It comes to regulate by law our appetites and our daily lives. It comes to tear down liberty and build up fanaticism, hypocrisy, and intolerance. It comes to confiscate by legislative decree the property of many of our fellow citizens. It comes to send spies, detectives, and informers into our homes; to have us arrested and carried before courts and condemned to fines and imprisonments. It comes to dissipate the sunlight of happiness, peace, and prosperity in which we are now living and to fill our land with alienations, estrangements, and bitterness. It comes to bring us evil - only evil - and that continually. Let us rise in our might as one and overwhelm it with such indignation that we shall never hear of it again as long as grass grows and water runs.

– Roger Quarles Mills

added by Normando
5 years ago

Reporters Without Borders expresses its sharp indignation on learning of the Ukrainian secret service's manipulation carried out as part of an information war, it is always very dangerous for states to play with facts and especially on the backs of journalists.

– Christophe Deloire

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

For this reason, with all humility I ask your forgiveness, i reiterate my sincere and profound apology for the offense and indignation I have caused you.

– Pena Nieto

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Today is the day of indignation. It's the day of a lack of democratic respect, the day of authoritarianism, i felt like a political prisoner this morning.

– Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

He has a righteous indignation, the same fire in the belly that I have, when he came to Cleveland State University he said to a majority white crowd that as the next President he would work to eradicate institutional racism. He has a boldness that the party needs.

– Nina Turner

Found on CNN
8 years ago

If Nikos Mihaloliakos add the migrant crisis to huge disappointment and great pressures in every day life Nikos Mihaloliakos realize the environment favors them, it's more than a protest vote - it's a vote of indignation, of anger against the political system, against daily life.

– Costas Panagopoulos

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I'm coming out to show my indignation.

– Francisco Mosack

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We hear all about budget cuts, but so far it's only hurting people like me, i'm coming out to show my indignation.

– Francisco Mosack

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We are here to express our indignation with the government-sponsored corruption and thieving, and to demand Dilma's impeachment, she may have not been directly involved in the corruption at Petrobras, but she certainly knew about it, and for me that makes her just as guilty and justifies her ouster.

– Andre Menezes

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

This indignation and breast-beating over this letter is absolute nonsense.

– Jim Risch

Found on CNN
9 years ago

Such act of terrorism is outrageous and impermissible, which causes me nothing but strong indignation.

– Shoichi Yukawa

Found on CNN
9 years ago

If true, the act of threat in exchange of people's lives is unforgivable and we feel strong indignation, we will make our utmost effort to win their release as soon as possible.

– Chief Cabinet Secretary

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

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

added by anonymous
9 years ago

Poverty in itself does not make men into a rabble; a rabble is created only when there is joined to poverty a disposition of mind, an inner indignation against the rich, against society, against the government.

– Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.

– Bertrand Russell

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Ah! How neatly tied, in these people, is the umbilical cord of morality! Since they left their mothers they have never sinned, have they? They are apostles, they are the descendants of priests; one can only wonder from what source they draw their indignation, and above all how much they have pocketed to do this, and in any case what it has done for them.

– Antonin Artaud

added by anonymous
10 years ago

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

– Plato

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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(used especially of glances) directed to one side with or as if with doubt or suspicion or envy

A tantamount

B askant

C inexpiable

D ostensive