Compassion Quote by Gertrude Himmelfarb

The vehemence of my moral indignation surprised me. Was I beginning to have standards and principles, and, oh dear, scruples? What were they, and…

— Elaine Dundy

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…

— Barbara Holland

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the…

— Erich Fromm

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

— Vittorio De Sica

It has been said that the historian is the avenger, and that standing as a judge between the parties and rivalries and causes of…

— Herbert Butterfield

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they…

— Aleister Crowley

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

— Marshall McLuhan

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…

— H. L. Mencken

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…

— Maurice Cowling

“Late-sleeping Utopians, especially, persist like mercury. I am a fanatic myself, although not a woman of temperament. I get nervous at scenes. I stole…

— Renata Adler

In a fashion similar to the leftist occupiers on Wall Street, their antics would be the target of rabid moral indignation on the front…

— Jamie Glazov

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