#indignation

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

— Vittorio De Sica

#envy #indignation #moral #most

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

#indignation #our #submission #thoughts

A writer should express criticism and indignation at the dark side of society and the ugliness of human nature, but we should not use one uniform expression. ↗

— Mo Yan

#dark #dark side #express #expression #human

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ↗

— Simone de Beauvoir

#compassion #friendship #indignation #life #long

Where is the indignation about the fact that the US and USSR have thirty thousand pounds of destructive force for every human being in the world? ↗

— Norman Cousins

#being #destructive #every #fact #force

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#germany #indignation #inspirational #literature #reality

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove. ↗

— Jose Marti

#build #cast #centuries #down #everything

It's freezing up here. What did you use to keep warm?" "Indignation," said Michelangelo. "Best fuel I know. Never burns out. ↗

— Irving Stone

#art #artists #indignation #anger

He is not truly patient who will only suffer as far as seems right to him and from whom he pleases. The truly patient man considers not by whom he is tried, one above him, or by an equal, or by an inferior, whether by a good and holy man or by a perverse and unworthy, but from every creature. He gratefully accepts all from the hand of God and counts it gain. ↗

— Thomas à Kempis

#pride #equality

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

#double-standards #envy #hate #indignation #morality