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Quotes About Outrage

It was strange how in no time at all everybody went from fear to being excruciatingly bored, and the very women who yesterday had been helpless victims and just minutes earlier were howling in fright, now began to advance on him threatening with their fists and saying: 'Git on out of here, you old skunk!' Which shows something about the way a female is put together; she will suffer any outrage so long as it is interesting, but bore her and she don't know fear.
~ Thomas Berger
The internet is the superhighway of grammatically incorrect moral outrage. EPHRON:
~ Nora Ephron
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was to her so horrible an outrage of human decency that, without replying, dazed and blinded, she bend her head as if to let her pelt f jagged hail, the drench of dirty water, bespatter her unrebuked.
~ Virginia Woolf
It wasn't a kiss, human, so don't get excited." She sputtered in outrage. "I don't know what putting your lips on someone else's mouth means for your people - whatever they are - but humans call that a kiss." "Congratulations, then. You made out with a hellhound.
~ Larissa Ione
Therapist:) "It's interesting that you drew yourself with this little golden crown on your head. What does the crown mean to you?" "That's not a crown," she told him. "That's a nimbus of outrage.
~ Laura Ruby
You must shock the bourgeois.
~ Charles Baudelaire
So it is that intelligent people often reserve their outrage almost exclusively for what they see as judgmental attitudes – - the one evil they are willing to indict with impunity.
~ Charles Colson
So it was done to the general contentment; and if Gruff and Glum didn't in the course of the afternoon splice the main brace, it was not for want of the means of inflicting that outrage on the feelings of the Infant Bands of Hope.
~ Charles Dickens
I fart in your general direction. Your mother has a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.
~ Graham Chapman
That bastard crazy.
~ Graham Roumieu
Being abused causes pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, and misery can only break what goodness remains.
~ James Hilton ( Cowboy)
Sidious rejected outrage and intimidation for rankled curiosity. "Is this the point where I'm expected to ask why I've been abducted?
~ James Luceno
She's about as sweet as a flaming turd.
~ James Patterson
laughing, so I kept going. "'Your wife is ugly, and your daughter too. I think this play is stupid, so guess what? I'm out of here and you can kiss my—
~ James Patterson
Your wife is ugly, and your daughter too. I think this play is stupid, so guess what? I'm out of here and you can kiss my—
~ James Patterson
but incredibly angry and really, really crazy.
~ James Patterson
going. "'Your wife is ugly, and your daughter too. I think this play is stupid, so guess what? I'm out of here and you can kiss my—
~ James Patterson
If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which put you to indignation, to outrage. You must stand up. I always say to people, 'Look around; look at what makes you unhappy, what makes you furious, and then engage yourself in some action.'
~ Stephane Hessel
The photos were taken by African Union soldiers. People in Congress saw them. I thought if people could see them, there would be public outcry. No one would be able to say, We just didn't know what was going on there.
~ Nicholas Kristof
What unites Sanders, McCarthy, McGovern and Reagan is the unmistakable clarity of their moral convictions, their tendency to outrage, and their insistence that the United States needs to embark on a whole new path.
~ Cass Sunstein
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.
~ John Rabe
Sarah Palin is to women what John Wayne Gacy was to birthday clowns.
~ David Alan Grier
When we hear a story of the abuse of a child or the abuse of women almost all people are appalled by instances of that kind.
~ Desmond Tutu
The truth is that the culture that surrounds us—and that persistently triggers new explosions of backlash outrage—is largely the product of business rationality. It is made by writers and actors, who answer to editors and directors and producers, who answer to senior vice presidents and chief executive officers, who answer to Wall Street bankers, who demand profits above all else.
~ Thomas Frank