'The surest way to work up a crusade is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone.'

 

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favour of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. ... 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 in his 1934 introduction to Samuel Butler's dystopian satirical South-Island novel, Erewhon