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  • 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 (2013). “Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics”, p.235, Routledge
  • What I admire most in any man is a serene spirit, a steady freedom from moral indignation, and all-embracing tolerance--in brief,what is commonly called sportsmanship.

    Freedom   Men   Tolerance  
    H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.163, Vintage
  • Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

    The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman (1914) ch. 9, sect. 2
  • In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental mode, compassion seeks above all to do good.

  • From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of moral indignation without the resources to fight it, that it had been providential good fortune which had placed the burden of fighting on the Russians and the Americans.

    War   Fighting   Views  
    Maurice Cowling (1990). “Mill and Liberalism”, p.15, Cambridge University Press
  • The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for which only he can provide justice and bring a righteous resolution.

    Justice   Liberty   Veils  
  • moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged to force on other people.

  • No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of the Atlantic, I will hold up America to the lightning scorn of moral indignation. In doing this, I shall feel myself discharging the duty of a true patriot; for he is a lover of his country who rebukes and does not excuse its sins.

    Country   Voice   America  
    Speech at Market Hall, New York, N.Y., 22 Oct. 1847
  • It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of bygone generations he can lift up the fallen and beat down the proud, and by his exposures and his verdicts, his satire and his moral indignation, can punish unrighteousness, avenge the injured or reward the innocent.

    Party   Judging   Rewards  
  • Only let the North exert as much moral influence over the South, as the South has exerted demoralizing influence over the North, and slavery would die amid the flame of Christian remonstrance, and faithful rebuke, and holy indignation

    Sarah Grimke, Angelina Grimke (2015). “On Slavery and Abolitionism: Essays and Letters”, p.155, Penguin
  • Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy.

    Funny   Envy   Moral  
  • The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and what would I do with them, and how much were they going to get in my way?

    Elaine Dundy (2010). “The Dud Avocado”, p.80, New York Review of Books
  • Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness.

    Susan Sontag (2014). “A Susan Sontag Reader”, p.177, Macmillan
  • They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

    "The Confessions of Aleister Crowley". Book by Aleister Crowley. Chapter 57, 1969.
  • One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

    Love   Life   Kindness  
    Simone de Beauvoir (1975). “The Coming of Age”
  • I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable stranger to moral indignation.

  • Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity.

  • 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.

    Use   World   Moral  
    Bertrand Russell (1960). “Sceptical Essays”
  • In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front pages of the New York times and Washington Post and on the lead stories of every cable news show.

    Fashion   New York   Wall  
  • Envy has always hidden behind moral indignation.

    Envy   Moral   Behinds  
    Doris May Lessing (1997). “Walking in the Shade: Volume Two of My Autobiography, 1949-1962”
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