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Quotes About Outrage

"I'm about to do to you what Limp Bizkit did to music in the late '90s."
~ Deadpool (2016)
What I mean is that conservatives are in a constant state of hair-on-fire, yelling anger.
~ Erick Erickson
I will not endure this thing! I alone withstand to death, This outrage! Ah me! how sick & pale you all stand round me! Ah me! pitiable ones! do you also go the deaths vale? All you my Friends & Brothers! all you my beloved Companions! Have you also caught the infection of Sin & stern Repentance? I see Disease arise upon you! yet speak to me and give Me some comfort: why do you all stand silent? I alone Remain in permanent strength.
~ William Blake
the repeated charge that CNN reports "fake news," which started shortly after some blog sites Trump draws on had been shown to manufacture news claims out of nothing. The idea here is to cauterize public outrage by making it seem that "both sides" say the same thing about the other.
~ William E. Connolly
Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame. No matter how young you are or how old you have got. Not for kudos and not for cash: your picture in the paper nor money in the bank either. Just refuse to bear them.
~ William Faulkner
She accepted that--not reconciled: accepted--as though there is a breathing-point in outrage when you can accept it almost with gratitude since you can say to yourself, 'thank God, this is all; at least I now know all of it--
~ William Faulkner
It was not for an outrage that they grieved, but for simple grief: the only alternative to which was nothing, and between grief and nothing only the coward takes nothing.
~ William Faulkner
all writing worth reading comes, like suicide, from outrage or revenge
~ William Gaddis
The way towards simplicity is through outrage.
~ William Golding
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. I am no such thing, it would say; I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.
~ William James
The first thing the intellect does with an object is to class it along with something else. But any object that is infinitely important to us and awakens our devotion feels to us also as if it must be sui generis and unique. Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. "I am no such thing," it would say; "I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone.
~ William James
I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.
~ Chris Hayes
Daddy," said the toddler, now seething with righteous indignation, "you are a poo-poo head!" Feigning outrage, JFK lowered his voice. "John," he said, "no one calls the President of the United States a poo-poo head.
~ Christopher Andersen
He contends this is not an isolated case and explains that prosecutors, judges, and juries, most of whom are white, are far more outraged when white people are murdered than when black people are.
~ Helen Prejean
Truth is not only violated by falsehood it may be outraged by silence.
~ Henri Frdric Amiel
But it was not only by this feeling, as Varvara thought, that he was guided. Mingling with his pride, with his need always to be first, was another motive, at which Varvara did not guess - a truly religious urge. His disillusionment in Mary (his betrothed), whom he had imagined such a saint, his feeling of outrage was so cruel that he sank into despair; and despair led him - whither? To God, to the faith of his childhood, which had never lost its hold upon him.
~ Leo Tolstoy
You know Kim Jong Un, the evil dictator of North Korea? Apparently, a guy in his inner circle used his ashtray while smoking and Kim Jong Un had him executed. I remember the same thing happened when a guy used Martha Stewart's personal lemon zester.
~ letterman david
Lactose intolerant milk?! KISS, MY, DICK!
~ Lewis Black
"Talking of axes," said the Duchess, "chop off her head!"
~ Lewis Carroll
I think to many people the term 'activist film' implies a film with a single point of view - something designed to provoke outrage and urge action on a particular issue - sort of the film equivalent of a rally. 'If a Tree Falls' is not that kind of film.
~ Marshall Curry
#BlackLivesMatter brought a new sense of urgency, audacity, and outrage to the issue of police violence against black men that has made it impossible to ignore, to cover up, or to justify.
~ Danny K. Davis
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
~ Herodotus
I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
~ John McCain
She had large, questioning eyes that seemed to draw me in and a sense of quiet outrage that simmered just beneath the surface. More than anything, within her features, there was a streak of wild quirkiness that made her dazzlingly attractive.
~ Jasper Fforde