Moral Outrage Quotes

• Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Time, Goal

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• All great art comes from a sense of outrage.

  Glenn Close

  Inspirational, Art, Acting

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Age, Excellent, Outrage

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• 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

  Morning, Kings, Tired

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.171, Harvard University Press

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• Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.

  Maria Weston Chapman

  Love, Voice, Giving

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• It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.

  John F. Kerry

  Years, Political, Moral

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

  Judy Blume

  Censorship In Books, Moral, Outrage

  "Why books are small but dangerous" by Nicky Parker, www.theguardian.com. August 28, 2015.

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• Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

  Mason Cooley

  Wicked, Guilt, Thrill

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• Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

  Philip Roth

  Art, Humor, Moral

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• 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

  Thinking, Levels, Moral

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.

  Paula Rothenberg

  Moving, Responsibility, Names

  "White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism". Book by Paula Rothenberg, 2002.

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• Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

  Joan Halifax

  Motivation, Inspiration, Compassion

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• Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

  Bill Whittle

  Politics, Moral, Outrage

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• Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

  Jonah Goldberg

  Lefties, Bumps, Facts

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• Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition.

  Ari Shavit

  Unique, Hands, Years

  Ari Shavit (2013). “My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel”, p.10, Spiegel & Grau

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• Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Rip, Justice, Democracy

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• Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.

  Robert Paul Wolff

  Believe, Issues, Soul

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• We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

  Neil Sheehan

  Country, War, Winning

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• I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

  Deepak Chopra

  Believe, Add, Moral

  "Deepak Chopra Talks About Awakening the World and His “Sages and Scientists” Symposium". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 15, 2013.

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• Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

  Morton Blackwell

  Powerful, Politics, Moral

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