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Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ... -- Muriel Rukeyser
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. -- Herodotus
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? -- Andrew Greeley
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. -- Louis Kronenberger
Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions. -- Margery Allingham
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
Outrage is easy, cheap, and oversold. The nation needs less anger and more thoughtful reflection, less shouting and more listening, less dissembling and more honesty. -- Mario Cuomo
Stupidity, outrage, vanity, cruelty, iniquity, bad faith, falsehood - we fail to see the whole array when it is facing in the same direction as we. -- Jean Rostand
Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly. -- Victor Hugo
A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On. -- Anita Roddick
When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action. -- Paul Wellstone
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
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
9/11 was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long-waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us. -- Michelle Malkin
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage. -- Judy Blume
All great art comes from a sense of outrage. -- Glenn Close
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority. -- Molly Ivins
First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can. -- Denis Diderot
There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image. -- Oscar Romero
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. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. -- Winston Churchill
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
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage. -- Peter McWilliams
Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary rather than sufficient factors, but we distrust anything that contradicts science or outrages reason. We may differ on many things, but what we respect is free inquiry, openmindedness, and the pursuit of ideas for their own sake. -- Christopher Hitchens
As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being. -- Arianna Huffington
Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. -- Joan Halifax
I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage. -- Chris Hayes
Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant. -- Alan Moore
I think it's sort of an outrage that companies should have to hire firms to teach the college graduates they employ how to write. -- Derek Bok
I'm attracted to artists like Frida Kahlo, because her work was her life, her questions, her outrage, her suffering, her pain. Everything is in her work. -- Madonna Ciccone
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
The president we have today is a typical Washington politician that's prone to hyperbole and decisiveness and false outrage. And I think it's very sad - very sad to watch. -- Marco Rubio
New forms of media - first movies, then television, talk radio and now the Internet - tend to challenge traditional codes of conduct. They flout convention, shake up the status quo and sometimes provoke outrage. -- Willow Bay
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
Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as a bunch of racist kooks becomes self-destructive. The Tea Party outrage over health-care reform, deficit spending and entitlements run amok is no fringe concern. -- Juan Williams
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive some award, I covet it. But this is not me at my best, and these are not the feelings we would instill and promote in our children. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
When I was in college, my school newspaper accepted an ad from a Holocaust revisionist organization. This would have been offensive on most college campuses across the country, but I went to a school with a very large Jewish population, so the ad, as you might expect, stirred absolute outrage. -- Simon Sinek
We cannot erase what has been done. We can apologize for it. We can express our outrage. We can say to the American people and to the people of the world, this is not our way and we do not condone it, but we cannot change it and we cannot erase it. -- Ben Nelson
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
I'm a huge supporter of animal rights - and I've been an outspoken critic of the cruelties routinely inflicted on livestock at factory farms. But it really bothers me that the mistreatment of pigs and chickens and cows seems to attract a lot more attention and spark a lot more outrage than the abuse of immigrant workers. -- Eric Schlosser
Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it. -- Sigmar Gabriel
We are beginning to see a fundamental outrage at the whole interconnected mess of a system: at energy companies who record massive profits, yet allow pensioners to struggle to stay warm in winter; at CEOs who can earn up to a 1,000 times the salary of their average worker; and soon, any day now, at those politicians who allowed this to happen. -- Noreena Hertz
Unsaturated fat is an outrage. -- Ian Paisley
Wealth breeds satiety, satiety outrage. -- Solon
It is not righteousness to outrage -- Sophocles
The way towards simplicity is through outrage. -- William Golding
I always had a decent sense of outrage. -- Bella Abzug
Old age is an excellent time for outrage. -- Maggie Kuhn
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art. -- Philip Roth
Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage. -- Bill Whittle
Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics. -- Morton Blackwell
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. -- Clifford Bax
The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense. -- Thomas Paine
Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do. -- Kathy Reichs
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. -- Blaise Pascal
Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage. -- Jonah Goldberg
Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people. -- Mark Shields
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. -- Philip Yancey
It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill. -- Pierre Corneille
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him. -- Sophocles
My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage! -- William Shakespeare
That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity. -- Victor Hugo
I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love. -- Martina Navratilova
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. -- William Cowper
Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers. -- Seth MacFarlane
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others. -- Mason Cooley
In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant. -- William S. Burroughs
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. -- Marian Wright Edelman
Social security isn't a ponzi scheme. It's not bankrupting us. It's not an outrage. It is working. -- Rachel Maddow
Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind. -- Jean Cocteau
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue. -- Oscar Wilde
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. -- George Combe
wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. -- Emma Goldman
First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies. -- Kevin DeYoung
Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom. -- Daniel D. Palmer
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. -- Hans-Hermann Hoppe
I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith. -- Stephen Fry
It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order. -- George Harrison
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. -- Alexandre Dumas
People don't mind positive stereotypes. People don't mind positive assumptions. It's only negative assumptions about them. So their outrage is so arbitrary. -- Jim Norton
Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights. -- Orville Prescott
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
God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage. -- Ronald J. Sider
I'd bet Sony has some similar stuff up their sleeves they're just playing on the internet outrage for free PR. You're all being played! -- Cliff Bleszinski
God said, I am tired of kings, I suffer them no more; Up to my ear this morning brings The outrage of the poor. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them. -- Gertrude Atherton
The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God. -- Charles Webster Leadbeater
What's the matter with this country is the matter with the lot of us individually - our sense of personality is a sense of outrage ... -- Elizabeth Bowen
It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage! -- Murray Leinster
Ever since the romantic comedy-drama 'She's Gotta Have It' antagonized black women and black men in 1986, Spike Lee's films have enjoyed the outrage of various groups. -- Lee Siegel
You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster. "With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat. -- Lisa Kleypas
A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage. -- Ken Loach
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself. -- Aristotle
How little do the most wonderful inventions of modern times detain us. They insult nature. Every machine, or particular application, seems a slight outrage against universal laws. -- Henry David Thoreau
In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries. -- Antonio Tabucchi
People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make. -- Eudora Welty
I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. -- Dorothy Wordsworth
You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. -- Mort Walker
So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility. -- Ani DiFranco
I think moral outrage is born not of anger but of love. It comes from the highest in us, not from a low-level sense of anger or cynicism. -- Marianne Williamson
There's more outrage on Twitter about a One Direction split or about what one band member said to another than there is about institutionalized racism and something huge. -- Trevor Noah
If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it. -- Bob Dole
We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth. -- Christopher McDougall
The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage. -- Zainab Salbi
Writing and giving voice to what I am feeling makes me happy. And supporting people in finding their voice, passion, outrage and resistance. There is nothing better than that. -- Eve Ensler
The press, or at least most of it, has lost the passion, the outrage, and the sense of mission that once drove reporters to defy authority and tell the truth. -- Chris Hedges
Get your sense of outrage back, and your sense of defiance and spirit back, and try to put these pieces together and confront the excesses of empire at every turn. -- John Cusack
I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in China and so it was an outrage basically. -- Amanda Schull
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
He who allows himself to be insulted deserves to be so; and insolence, if unpunished, increases! [Lat., Qui se laisse outrager, merite qu'on l'outrage Et l'audace impunie enfle trop un courage.] -- Pierre Corneille
We all remember that [Donald] Trump was one of the leaders of the so-called birther movement trying to delegitimize the presidency of our first African-American president Barack Obama, which is an outrage. -- John Lewis
Self-conceit is a weighty quality, and will sometimes bring down the scale when there is nothing else in it. It magnifies a fault beyond proportion, and swells every omission into an outrage. -- Jeremy Collier
The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have made it grow; martyrdoms have crowned it. -- St. Jerome
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
I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right. -- Marianne Williamson
The exposÃ©, the compassion and outrage, of documentary fueled by the dedication to reform has shaded over into combinations of exoticism, tourism, voyeurism, psychologism and metaphysics, trophy hunting - and careerism. -- Martha Rosler
I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged. -- David Lee Roth
The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less. -- Max Baucus
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. -- George Bernard Shaw

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