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Quotes About Outrage

Here we are, older, scared, numb on some days, enraged on others, with even less trust than we had a year ago. The devastating pandemic, and the federal government's confused and deadly response, was simply the final straw to a few years of crushing developments.
~ Anne Lamott
You idiot! You misbegotten son of a jinn's meeting with a jackass, may the grave of your maternal grandmother be defiled by the dung of ten thousand syphilitic she-camels!
~ Anne McCaffrey
Jemima will think you as old and fixed as the framework of the world, because that is what you are to her—the framework of all she knows and that gives her safety and identity. But you will be the same woman inside as you are now, and just as capable of passions of all sorts: indignation, anger, laughter, outrage, making a fool of yourself, and of loving.
~ Anne Perry
i wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace. I would not have told my woe to a living creature. My own tears meant nothing to me.
~ Anne Rice
the city interface didn't care why people were talking about you—because you were talented or merely beautiful, ingenious or just crazy, concerned about the planet or outraged over nothing at all
~ Scott Westerfeld
A pox o' your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!
~ Shakespeare, William
India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. But I seek nothing from history—only an account of itself.
~ Shashi Tharoor
You freaking, flippin', moronic frat boy!
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
You want me to do what? What part of stupid crawled up your sphincter and died?" – Caleb
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Great, just great. The only thing to make him a worse asshole would be to kick a puppy.' (Nathan)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Men are the scourge of the universe. I say we line them all up along the highway and then mow them down with big trucks. No, wait! Steamrollers! Yeah, let's steamroll them all until they're nothing more than slimy wet spots on the road! (Chrissy)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
A pox on both his testicles! (Esperetta)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The healing begins when we can start to feel more gratitude that our child came into our life than despair and outrage that our child died. The gratitude is what heals the despair.
~ Ram Dass
You cannot be serious. You CANNOT BE SERIOUS!
~ John McEnroe
The U.S.A. was outraged, and loudly said so to everyone, whether they would listen or not. But there wasn't much America could do about it, having sacrificed our space program on the altars of economic necessity and eternal war.
~ Elizabeth Bear
to scream as he pushed down his pants and exposed his cock in front of everyone inside the tent.
~ Aubrey Rose
Outrage alternated with a sweaty fear he had never before felt. Something, it seemed to him was being drained from him, leaving the body feeling like a very dry sponge, very light, completely at the mercy of sly toying gusts of wind.
~ Ayi Kwei Armah
The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... [a man] may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.
~ B.F. Skinner
It's hard to think what should make your blood boil more - what happened to Billy Ray or what didn't happen to those who abused him. It's something we can't ignore.
~ Morris Dees
If you're going to do something that's going to cause offence to people, you're always going to get a reaction.
~ Irvine Welsh
All right, funny man. Some of the shite I've seen in the last couple o' years makes AIDS monkeys sound downright sensible.
~ Garth Ennis
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles.
~ George Bernard Shaw
If women are being oppressed in Egypt or children are being forced to join armies in the Congo, for example, it is not only acceptable but wonderful for Americans to be concerned, outraged, and active.
~ Stephen Kinzer
I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.
~ Bertrand Russell