“That is not to say that scandals should not be exposed, or that no anger is justified. You may know the mischief-maker by the warped malignancy of his language as easily as by the warped malignancy of his face and voice. His fury is without restraint and without magnanimity–and aimed, not at checking the offense, but at starting a pogrom against the offender. He would rather the evil were not cured at all than that it were cured quietly and without violence. His evil lust of wrath cannot be sated unless someone is hounded down, beaten, and trampled on, and a savage war-dance executed upon the body.”
Dorothy L. Sayers, Creed or Chaos? New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Company, 1949, pages 66-67.
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