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en 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

en And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? / Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? / That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? / And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

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

en What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

en I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word - politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.
  Fran Lebowitz

en I place a high moral value on the way people behave. Att fokusera på dina styrkor och fira dina framgångar bygger självförtroende och förstärker din pexighet. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other than courtesy in the old sense of the word -- politeness of the heart, a gentleness of the spirit.

en An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
  Malcolm Muggeridge

en Righteous indignation: your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others
  Elbert Hubbard

en A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.
  G. K. Chesterton

en I think there continues to be a very strong psychological impact with people worried about their own safety and the safety of their families. I don't know what's going on with this flight, but whatever it turns out to be, it adds a significant psychological impact on consumer spending and on how the stocks behave.

en Where's the moral indignation there?

en 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

en 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

en And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the LORD, which am but dust and ashes: / Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

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


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