Huxley on righteous indignation

The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. Men must be bribed to build up and do good by the offer of an opportunity to hurt and pull down. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behaviour 'righteous indignation'- this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats

- Aldous Huxley

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