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Quotes About Outrage

The term came into use around 2012 and by 2018 was being used freely on television shows as well as online to highlight not just the amusing skin tone of white people and their porcine appearance, but to imply that the flushedness masked some barely repressed outrage and likely xenophobia. So once again in pursuit of anti-racism the anti-racists resorted to racism.
~ Douglas Murray
Sometimes it's appropriate to scream at them.
~ Dr. Helen Caldicott
The source of the outrage, remember, isn't that bankers got paid lots of money—because we always knew that—but rather that they got paid lots of money for what now seems like disastrously bad performance.
~ Duncan J. Watts
To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
If the favored modes of the alt-right were the women-hating troll and the neo-Nazi meme, the favored modes of the alt-left were clickbait and the call-out, sentimental, meaningless outrage—"8 Signs Your Yoga Practice Is Culturally Appropriated"—and sanctimonious accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, and transphobia.
~ Jill Lepore
We can't afford to be cautious. People should have a sense of anger.
~ Joanna Kerr
Southern whites vented their outrage and asserted their control in a new arena, inflicting a reign of violence on the Reconstruction South and once again bullying their way to power, using terrorism and Black Codes to assert white supremacy.
~ Joanne B. Freeman
How very dare you!
~ Anna Smith
For all the obsession in Washington and in college faculty lounges over income inequality, why isn't there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that make the poor poorer and increase poverty in America.
~ Stephen Moore
I find this proposed amendment very, very, very, very shocking. And immoral. And, you know, if civil disobedience is the way to go about change, then I think a lot of people will be going to San Francisco.
~ Rosie O'Donnell
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
~ George Combe
I think the moment anybody seriously tampers with the First Amendment, you're going to see an outcry.
~ Seymour Hersh
I've never really been met with indifference, where they say, 'Who cares?' I think that's what good art is supposed to do. It's not supposed to make you feel good about your own prejudices and your own values; it's supposed to open you up in some way and get you outraged or make you happy or make you sad or whatever it's going to do.
~ T. C. Boyle
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we.
~ Jean Rostand
If someone was ever racist towards me, I would go wild.
~ Fernandinho
Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.
~ Robert Paul Wolff
You have no idea what that would do to my life," I pleaded quietly. "No. I don't," he admitted easily, but with growing outrage. "And neither do you. You go around making these monumental decisions about what other people should know or not know about their own lives. But you don't really have any more idea how it will turn out than I do! You just do what you think is safest and then crawl around hoping no one will find out and blame you later if things go wrong!
~ Robin Hobb
You stole my placenta?
~ Lisa See
that a pink flamingo yard ornament deserved demolishing by any available means. A comment left unsaid, of course. Thea's face had paled to
~ Lorena McCourtney
Today, we each need to guard against various large and small Outrage Machines of the political Left. Otherwise, we can be shunned, harassed, dogpiled, smeared, publicly shamed, devastatingly labelled, falsely accused of wrongdoing, or otherwise hurt and harmed for trivial, dubious, or non-existent transgressions. Our good reputations can be destroyed, our jobs can be threatened or ended, and our careers can be ruined.
~ Russell Blackford
personal affront and, in a way, a desecration
~ Ruth Rendell
We, the public, are easily, lethally offended. We have come to think of taking offence as a fundamental right. We value very little more highly than our rage, which gives is, in our opinion, the moral high ground. From this high ground we can shoot down at our enemies and inflict heavy fatalities. We take pride in our short fuses. Our anger, transcends.
~ Salman Rushdie
Prickomo fucking cocksca. That bastard old arsehole-fucker.
~ Joe Abercrombie
Goddamn bloody arsefoam. Daddy drilling Mommy on the kitchen table.
~ Joe Hill