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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as 'moral indignation,' wh...

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Erich FrommMan for Himself: An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics

Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popu...

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There is a power that can be created out of pent-up indignation, courage, and the inspiration of a c...

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Howard ZinnYou Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

There too he had been treated with revolting injustice. His struggles, his privations,his hard work ...

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Men are excessively ruthless and cruel not as a rule out of malice but from outraged righteousness. ...

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Lewis Richardson wrote that his quest to analyze peace with numbers sprang from two prejudices. As a...

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Steven PinkerThe Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined

Anyone can get angry, but to do this to the right person, to the right extent, at the right time, wi...

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I went on and on, and as I continued, I became more righteous in my indignation. It was the sort of ...

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Azar NafisiReading Lolita in Tehran