Character Quote by Barbara Holland

Moral indignation is one of the most harmful forces in the modern world, the more so as it can always be diverted to sinister…

— Bertrand Russell

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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

— Vittorio De Sica

“Some pleasures are intrinsically ethical—feelings like love, gratitude, devotion, and compassion. To inhabit these states of mind is, by definition, to be brought into…

— Sam Harris

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…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feelings as “moral indignation,” which permits envy or hate to be acted out under…

— Erich Fromm

“I don’t mind people going about unobtrusively doing good, but I can’t stomach moral indignation.”

— Kate Ross

If enjoyment is a value, why is it moral when experienced by others, but immoral when experienced by you?... Why is it immoral for…

— John Galt

To enjoy and give enjoyment, without injury to yourself or others; this is true morality.

— Nicolas Chamfort

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

— Ernest Hemingway

There is a perennial and unobtrusive view that morality consists in such things as telling the truth, paying one's debts, respecting one's parents and…

— Allan Bloom

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

— Ernest Hemingway