Self Indignation

When you combine a rush of judgment with righteous self-indignation and a community of people who exist primarily to verify your own prejudices, you get the kind of strange virtual lynch mob that occurred on Facebook today. ❋ Unknown (2009)

And somewhere back of her self-indignation flitted the form -- the now seductive form -- of Bert Morrison. ❋ Robert J. C. Stead (1919)

I had fired half a dozen shots without effect; but while no one ever gets over his feeling of self-indignation at missing an easy shot at close quarters, any one who hunts antelope and is not of a disposition so timid as never to take chances, soon learns that he has to expect to expend a good deal of powder and lead before bagging his game. ❋ Unknown (1885)

"It seems as if I did it on purpose," groaned he in self-indignation. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1863)

You will comprehend something better, the woful distinction between courage of the blood and courage of the brain; between the mere recklessness of brute impulse, and the steady valor of the soul -- that valor, which, though it trembles, marches forward to the attack -- recovers from its fainting, to retrieve its defeat; and glows with self-indignation because it has suffered the moment of victory to pass, without employing itself to secure the boon! ❋ William Gilmore Simms (1838)

Let it not therefore lessen our sorrow and humiliation for sin that we are beguiled into it; but rather let it increase our self-indignation that we should suffer ourselves to be beguiled by a known cheat and a sworn enemy. ❋ Unknown (1721)