Indignant Quotes
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While the visible victims may draw the headlines and attract indignant protests from so-called "pro-life" organizations, the invisible victims are people like you and me who will suffer from diseases that are never cured because funds are being poured down a healthcare sieve in order to maintain permanently-unconscious bodies on complex and costly forms of life support.
jacob m. appel— "Rational Rationing vs. Irrational Rationing", The Huffington Post (2010-06-23)
Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'dAround their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
william blake— America, A Prophecy
Children of the future AgeReading this indignant page,Know that in a former timeLove! sweet Love! was thought a crime.
william blake— A Little Girl Lost, st. 1
Ah! where shall weary man take sanctuary,where live his little span of life secure?and 'scape of Heav'n serene th' indignant stormsthat launch their thunders at us earthen worms?
sir richard francis burton— Translation of The Lusiads (1880), Canto I, st. 106, p. 40
Every American travelling in England gets his own individual sport out of the toy passenger and freight trains and the tiny locomotives, with their faint, indignant, tiny whistle. Especially in western England one wonders how the business of a nation can possibly be carried on by means so insufficient.
willa cather— Ch. 4 (16 July 1902)
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations... But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.
john kenneth galbraith— The Guardian (UK, 1992-05-23)
In America, we build public housing by creating lucrative inducements to private developers, and then wax indignant at the public waste.
robert kuttner— Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 37
Every day that we allow ourselves to take things for granted, every day that we allow some little physical infirmity or worldly worry to come between us and our obstinate, indignant, defiant exultation, we are weakening our genius for life.
john cowper powys— pp. 134 (The Meaning of Culture (1929))
Every one of the great revolutionists, from Isaiah to Shelley , have been optimists. They have been indignant, not about the badness of existence, but about the slowness of men in realizing its goodness.
gilbert keith chesterton— "Introduction"
Where his glowing eye?balls turn, Thousand banners round him burn. Where he points his purple spear, Hasty, hasty Rout is there, Marking with indignant eye Fear to stop and shame to fly. There Confusion, Terror's child, Conflict fierce and Ruin wild, Agony that pants for breath, Despair and honourable Death.
thomas gray— "The Triumphs of Owen. A Fragment", from Mr. Evans's Specimens of the Welch Poetry (1764).
He seems unable to brook any criticism or challenging of his stories or statements. My comments from time to time, my obvious failure to be convinced of his complete innocence and lack of guile were irritating to him, and his voice reached heights of shrillness at times. As ever, his is still the pose of outraged innocence, and the honest banker indignant.
hjalmar schacht— Leon Goldensohn (10 March 1946)
In America, we build public housing by creating lucrative inducements to private developers, and then wax indignant at the public waste.
— Chapter 1, Equality and Efficiency, p. 37
