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Quotes About Outrage

Shame is the gateway emotion to increased self-criticism, which leads to realisation, an apology, outrage and eventually meaningful action. We're not holding our breaths that any appreciable members can be arsed to make the journey along that difficult chain of emotional honesty – many good people get past realisation, only to then get horribly stuck at apology – but we live in hope.
~ Jasper Fforde
I hadn't even heard of East Carmine, let alone thought I would be spending a month there on Humility Realignment. My friends were horrified, expressed low-to-moderate outrage that I should be treated this way and proclaimed that they would have started a petition if they could have troubled themselves to look for a pencil.
~ Jasper Fforde
One of her black pumps had fallen to the floor, and Joel was outraged at the sight of her pretty little bare foot being exposed to all and sundry. "Would you mind putting the president of Thornquist Gear back on her feet?" J
~ Jayne Ann Krentz
Then, as now, nobody talked about the legacy of Empire. Britain had colonised, owned, occupied or interfered with half the world. We had carved up some countries and created others. When some of the world we had made by force wanted something in return, we were outraged.
~ Jeanette Winterson
And the concert halls overflow with humiliated, outraged people who close their eyes and try to turn their pale faces into receiving antennæ. They imagine that the sounds flow into them, sweet, nourishing, and that their sufferings become music, like Werther; they think that beauty is compassionate to them. Mugs. I
~ Jean-Paul Sartre
I was born outraged. I was born without, knowing my people were not counted, not included, not centered. I struggled through low-resourced schools, communities, and housing projects.
~ Janet Mock
We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going on in our country, the atrocities that are being committed in our names around the world. They've gone missing; these feelings have gone missing.
~ Chris Jordan
During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.
~ Nish Kumar
In the old days, people would pick up the phone and complain or they'd write a letter. But now they go to Ofcom and they must be sick to death of all of this. Any minor outrage that anyone's got, they go to Ofcom. They must be inundated with minor complaints.
~ Phillip Schofield
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.
~ David Simon
America has a problem with fake hate crimes. The Left is always searching for the next big outrage, and sometimes when the pressure gets too high, they just decide to make them up.
~ Milo Yiannopoulos
Americans have always been inconsistent and kind of fake with outrage, but we've just slipped totally upside-down.
~ Jim Norton
If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice.
~ Daniel Cameron
What better way to attract an audience than to get everyone to shout 'Outrage!' at the size of your advance?
~ Harry Enfield
That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.
~ Ike Skelton
I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.
~ Roseanne Barr
I hate to see the way journalism is devalued: We have to feed the machine; we have to feed the Trump outrage machine, to feed the anger against Trump, to feed the New York liberal anger.
~ Seymour Hersh
I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this or that.
~ Eric Reid
Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are howls of outrage.
~ Steven Knight
I don't want to be president if I have to win by outrage. I don't want to just win. I want to govern, and not just by executive order.
~ Joe Sestak
Wherever you look - especially on social media - we see hate; there is shouting and daily outrage.
~ Frank-Walter Steinmeier
They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
~ Barney Frank
It's hard to get me outraged.
~ Lawrence O'Donnell
I try to be outraged by things that other people are just very accepting of, as though they're normal and can't be changed. A lot of what I write about is, 'Hey, you know, this stuff is really awful, and it doesn't need to be, and that's why it's so offensive.' Things should be better.
~ Matt Taibbi