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Quotes About Outrage

Mrs. Doyle!" exclaimed Ferguson with deep contempt. "She's the sort of woman who ought to be shot as an example.
~ Agatha Christie
If you aren't completely appalled, then you haven't been paying attention.
~ Alain Burrese
Hearing his howls of outrage, a pair of stormtroopers crossing at the far end of the access hallway changed course to investigate. What they saw within the cell as bits and pieces of red-hot debris came flying out caused them to retreat the way they had come—fast.
~ Alan Dean Foster
The French would be outraged, but then, the French were habitually outraged.
~ Alan Furst
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
~ Michael Gartner
My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me.
~ Zoe Wanamaker
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not.
~ Arthur Smith
But even as she struck the bonds seemed to tighten, with each fresh blow to bind more securely. Mary now clung with every fibre of her sorely distressed and outraged being; with every memory that Stephen stirred; with every passion that Stephen had fostered; with every instinct of loyalty that Stephen had aroused to do battle with Martin.
~ Radclyffe Hall
Outrage is something Donald Trump typically has in no short supply.
~ Bari Weiss
It's egregious that CPAC and Matt Schlapp have decided to bow to the leftist outrage mob and ban one of President Trump's most prominent supporters. I am extremely offended and appalled that I've been banned by my own people.
~ Laura Loomer
The supposedly petty sexual harassment that so many women have to endure, from Hollywood studios to the factory floor at Ford, is a national outrage that needs to end. Period.
~ Bret Stephens
There is no doubt I have offended many people. No doubt, also, that I have blasphemed. I sometimes try to offend as part of my routine - after all, the essence of humour, even in a child, is the effort to shock and surprise.
~ Frankie Boyle
And then there is Pythagoras. The legend is that the founder of theoretical mathematics was so outraged when one of his students, the haplessly gifted Hippasus, discovered irrational numbers21 that he sent the poor fellow out on a raft to drown, initiating a venerable tradition of professors mistreating their graduate students.
~ Rebecca Goldstein
Isn't it always unfair - death always a kind of outrage? A life ended too soon with jagged and torn edges, a sentence incomplete.
~ Rebecca Stott
furiosant, for there was certainly more of the mad bull
~ Reginald Hill
The first reactions to The Bell Curve were expressions of public outrage.
~ Richard J. Herrnstein
In any previous empire the religion of the ruling class had always been distinct from the faith of the subjugated masses, so the Christian emperors' attempt to impose their theology on their subjects was a shocking break with precedent and was experienced as an outrage.
~ Karen Armstrong
You couldn't turn on the TV without hearing about the missing teenage girl. Sixteen years old. White. Middle class. Very pretty. No one ever seemed quite as outraged when an ugly woman went missing.
~ Karin Slaughter
People were outraged. They were glued to their televisions, to their web pages, to their Facebook feeds. They vocally expressed sorrow, horror, fury, pain. They cried for change. They raised money. They demanded action. And then they went back to their lives until the next one happened again.
~ Karin Slaughter
The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
~ Sophocles
Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood.
~ William Allen White
The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
~ Marquis de Sade
And Donald Trump? That man literally has people shouting the n word at his rallies and he doesn't address it, which is astounding to me. He's a terrible person.
~ Bill Burr