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

  • -- Erich Fromm 埃里希·弗洛姆

也许没有一种现象比道德上的愤怒包含更多的破坏性情感,道德上的愤怒允许嫉妒,或者在美德的伪装下表现出来。

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Thus, the controversy about the Moral Majority arises not only from its views, but from its name - which, in the minds of many, seems to imply that only one set of public policies is moral and only one majority can possibly be right.

因此,关于道德多数的争论不仅来自其观点,而且来自其名称——在许多人看来,这似乎意味着只有一套公共政策是道德的,而且只有一种多数可能是正确的。

Anybody can be very destructive in that position without at all meaning to be, and I know that I have been inadvertently destructive in the past for certain people on certain occasions.

任何人在那种情况下都可能是非常具有破坏性的,而根本没有任何故意这样做的意思。我知道,我过去在某些特定的场合无意中对某些人具有破坏性。

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.

作家应该对社会的阴暗面和人性的丑恶表达批评和愤慨,但不能用一种统一的表达方式。

Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence that you should do this.

积累经验……看你不应该看的东西。焦虑的感觉是你应该这样做的确凿证据。

As a general truth, it is safe to say that any picture that produces a moral impression is a bad picture.

作为一个普遍的事实,可以肯定地说,任何给人留下道德印象的画面都是一幅糟糕的画面。

Why was I feeling this way? Why was everything so bad in my life? I had no answers to these questions.

为什么我会有这种感觉?为什么我生命中的一切都那么糟糕?我对这些问题没有答案。

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

愤怒是我们思想的屈服,而不是欲望的屈服。