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Quotes About Outrage

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
If anyone said anything sideways about my children, I would literally be in jail like, just straight up.
~ Brandi Glanville
Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.
~ Roxane Gay
What a shitbucket.
~ Sue Monk Kidd
It was interesting, actually, how everyone's primary feeling-state at that moment was disguised as a different emotion. Sarah's repulsion at being reunited with Liam took the form of outrage at Martin. Liam's passion for Sarah took the form of concern for Karen. And Karen's unbearable humiliation, which she had always expected and never expected, took the form of emotionlessness and not caring. "I
~ Susan Choi
What? Are you on crack? I did no such thing.
~ Susan Mallery
Brightling Crescent was a terrace of red-brick three-story houses of the Nottingham lace and pot-plant type of decoration. Their stone steps were coaxed into cleanliness and hideousness by liberal applications of coloured pipeclay. Some blushed at finding themselves so conspicuous, some were evidently jaundiced by the unwelcome attention, and some stared in pallid horror as at an outrage. But all of them wore that Nemo me impune lacessit air.
~ Josephine Tey
Then we all run out and are outraged [saying], 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What
~ Juan Williams
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.
~ Judith Butler
I have tried to communicate my ideas in a language that preserves connections, a language that is faithful both to the dispassionate, reasoned traditions of my profession and to the passionate claims of people who have been violated and outraged. I have tried to find a language that can withstand the imperatives of doublethink and allows all of us to come a little closer to facing the unspeakable.
~ Judith Lewis Herman
Injustice drives me crazy!
~ Trevor Paglen
Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
~ Felicity Huffman
Not only a pregnant woman is an outrage toward ethics but also an attack on aesthetics. Motherhood degrades women, it turns them into cows. With the forgiveness of cows, my sisters.
~ Fernando Vallejo
I am compelled to plead my own defence before this Court. There are two reasons: first, because I have been deprived almost entirely of legal advice; second, because only he who has been outraged as deeply as I, and who has seen his country so forsaken, its justice so reviled, can speak on an occasion like this with words made of the blood of his own heart and the very marrow of truth.
~ Fidel Castro
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.
~ bovee christian nestell ix
Snorting with disgust, Meta stamped out.
~ Harry Harrison
On many issues, empathy can pull us in the wrong direction. The outrage that comes from adopting the perspective of a victim can drive an appetite for retribution.
~ Paul Bloom
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.
~ Carl Hiaasen
I don't really get mad. But if I see a helpless animal being treated cruelly I will transform into the Incredible Hulk.
~ Heart Evangelista
If we are deprived of our just due, we naturally experience emotions of anger.
~ Smiley Blanton
I will be angry until my dying day, Mr Catchpool. Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.
~ Sophie Hannah
Greater sinners persecuting lesser sinners in the name of morality—that's something worth raging about.
~ Sophie Hannah
It is not righteousness to outragea brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
~ Sophocles
It may sound cruel...but...what makes a criminal is a disposition toward cruelty, a laziness and impatience that lead to taking from others, and cynicism that pretends there is a war going on, and that the victims are the result of a conflict that somebody else started. "[Caligula and DeSade] were expressing through the license of...power their outrage and boredom, and apparently meaningless lives. That these attitudes have filtered down to the lower classes is what is new.
~ Stanley Crouch