Moral indignation is a technique used to endow the idiot with dignity. — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Moral indignation in most cases is, 2% moral, 48% indignation, and 50% envy. — Vittorio De Sica Copy Share Image
Camp is a solvent of morality. It neutralizes moral indignation, sponsors playfulness. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
moral indignation is a pleasure, often the only pleasure, in many lives. It's also one of the few pleasures people feel obliged… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I've met so many people, often the scum of the earth, and found them, you know, quite decent. I am an uncomfortable… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I don’t mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can’t stomach moral indignation.” — Kate Ross Copy Share Image
Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
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… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
From Britain's point of view the 1939 war had been a liberal war which had been entered into in a condition of… — Maurice Cowling Copy Share Image
“Pain is a warning,” said Anaander Mianaai. “What would happen if you removed all discomfort from your life? No,” Mianaai continued, ignoring… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
Marxism is a success because it fuses the two inconsistent strains in Western thought - moral skepticism and moral indignation - and… — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were… — Elaine Dundy Copy Share Image
In its sentimental mode, compassion is an exercise in moral indignation, in feeling good rather than doing good ... In its unsentimental… — Gertrude Himmelfarb Copy Share Image
“There is a common tendency to turn off one's imagination at certain points and refuse to contemplate the possibility of having to… — John Fraser Copy Share Image
In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on… — Jamie Glazov Copy Share Image
No, I make no pretension to patriotism. So long as my voice can be heard on this or the other side of… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
“Late-sleeping Utopians, especially, persist like mercury. I am a fanatic myself, although not a woman of temperament. I get nervous at scenes.… — Renata Adler Copy Share Image
It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and… — Herbert Butterfield Copy Share Image
“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
“Next to enjoying ourselves, the next greatest pleasure consists in preventing others from enjoying themselves, or, more generally, in the acquisition of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“That we are not totally transformed, that we can turn away, turn the page, switch the channel, does not impugn the ethical… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“The more we understand what is happening in the world, the more frustrated we often become, for our knowledge leads to feelings… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“Moral indignation, even moral outrage, may on occasion be proof of love–love for the victim, love for the church of God, love… — D.A. Carson Copy Share Image
The Statist veils his pursuits in moral indignation, intoning in high dudgeon the injustices and inequities of liberty and life itself, for… — Mark Levin Copy Share Image
