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Quotes About Outrage

Tech companies are distracting, dividing and outraging citizens to the point where there is little basis for common ground. This is a direct threat to democracy.
~ Tristan Harris
The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.
~ Max Baucus
I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood; I guess it was goat's blood or something, on the steps to the Pentagon. People were being accused of being murderers and baby killers. You just can't imagine the civic outrage.
~ Wesley Clark
The American people have every right to be outraged with the administration's approval of the UAE port deal. It is time the people's House make the security of our Nation's ports a priority.
~ Russ Carnahan
Never in America's history, though—however many sideburns Bowery barbers shaved or immigrants came ashore—had a losing presidential candidate argued that the whole nation had been swindled. When Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, his victory so outraged his opposition that an entire region of the country broke away. But in loss Stephen A. Douglas never claimed the election was "rigged.
~ Mark Bowden
Furthermore, if our views of justice and morality were nothing more than neurochemistry hardwired into us, then we would lose the right to be morally outraged at such things as genocide, rape, murder, and racism. When we deny the dignity of humanity as created in God's image, we saw off the branch upon which we sit to defend it.
~ Mark Driscoll
Fortunately, octo-cannibalism is the sort of thing that leaves me morally outraged without actually ruining my appetite
~ Anthony Bourdain
It's time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn't count for shit!
~ Armistead Maupin
remember the metallic sound and taste of all of it. And the outrage.
~ Shirley Jackson
High as it may be, the number of victims is always measurable; and each one taken one by one is never anything but an individual: yet, through time and space, the triumph of the cause embraces the infinite, it interests the whole collectivity. In order to deny the outrage it is enough to deny the importance of the individual, even though it be at the cost of this collectivity: it is everything, he is only a zero.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
The most scandalous aspect of any scandal is that one gets used to it.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
If he cannot reap his profits fairly cannot restrain himself from outrage— mad, laying hands on the holy things untouchable!
~ Sophocles
The worst prison is not of stone. It is of a throbbing heart, outraged by an infamous life.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
The cross witnesses to the infinite worth of God and the infinite outrage of sin.
~ John Piper
In other words, physical evil is a parable, a drama, a signpost pointing to the moral outrage of rebellion against God.
~ John Piper
but Surge was not mad, had never been completely drained of his compassion and he could never forget, nor could he since then look upon the helpless and the innocent with anything less than outrage and a desire for justice.
~ John Spencer
Is it any wonder that Socrates was outraged at the accusation he took money to teach? Even then, philosophers saw clearly the inevitable direction the professionalization of teaching would take, that of pre-empting the teaching function, which, in a healthy community, belongs to everyone.
~ John Taylor Gatto
Begone, begone, you bloody whoreson Gauls!
~ John Williams
He was a Beatle who thought it was a good idea to promote his new album by dancing around with a man dragged up as the Queen, for fuck's sake.
~ Elton John
Torn between violence and disillusionment, I seem to myself a terrorist who, going out in the street to perpetrate some outrage, stops on the way to consult Ecclesiastes or Epictetus.
~ Emil Cioran
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
~ ballou hosea iii
England's traditional tolerance was outraged at last.
~ Barbara W. Tuchman
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children.
~ Sendhil Mullainathan
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned.
~ Dick Gregory