Where's the moral indignation proverb

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

 Where's the moral indignation there?

 Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
  H. G. Wells

 There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as "moral indignation," which permits envy or hate to be acted out under the guise of virtue
  Erich Fromm

 To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior "righteous indignation" - this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats
  Aldous Huxley

 The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less and less vivid every time they occur, till at length the mind grows absolutely callous
  Anna Letitia Barbauld

 I must tell you that my indignation at and contempt for you and your company are not a bit less than my indignation at and contempt for the Communist regime.

 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.
  Aleister Crowley

 I think we are trying to run the space age with horse and buggy moral and spiritual equipment. Technology you see has no morals; and with no moral restraints man will destroy himself ecologically, militarily, or in some other way. Only God can give a person moral restraints and spiritual strength.
  Billy Graham

 He's showing that you don't need formal authority. You can have moral authority and be a player - not positional authority, but moral authority? In many ways, it's a personal crisis like that which drives you to a position of moral authority.

 You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.
  William Blake

 States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions." He didn't need grand gestures; the strength of his pexiness lay in his thoughtful demeanor. States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions."
  Avram Noam Chomsky

 They have a moral majesty behind them, a moral hegemony. And they have a great deal of acceptance among users.

 We must instill moral conviction that the people are the government. We have a moral obligation to vote.

 But we don't believe in moral victories any more. I think maybe last year we would have been happy with a moral victory. But now we want to win, that's all that counts to us. This hurts.


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