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• Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Racism, Racist, Environment

  Interview with Sam Adams, www.avclub.com. June 17, 2011.

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• 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

  Scary, Important, Ongoing

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• Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands and bands manufactured to precise specifications; we are so used to things transmuting into whatever we would like them to be that it comes as a profound outrage to encounter death, stubbornly unspinnable, only and immutably itself.

  Tana French

  Profound, Mind, Encounters

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• Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others have taken themselves out of the human community as we know it, is a test of our very humanity.

  Judith Butler

  Taken, Thinking, Rights

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• 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

  Uplifting, Stars, Book

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• Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Poetry, Possibility, Knows

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• Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target.... Wal-Mart exists and prospers because tens of millions of Americans find Wal-Mart to be a suitable source of goods and services..... unions and anti-traders should direct their outrage and condemnation at the tens of millions of Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and keep it in business.

  Walter E. Williams

  Boys, Political, Target

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• I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were but half expanded and half grown, but the blossom was spread full out. I uprooted it rashly, and I felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again. It will have but a stormy life of it, but let it live if it can.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Flower, Rocks, Half

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.61, Oxford University Press

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• The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.

  Marguerite Duras

  Death, Brother, Grief

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• If I live, I mean to spend the rest of my life working for perpetual peace. I have seen war and faced artillery and know what an outrage it is against simple men.

  Tom Kettle

  War, Mean, Men

  Tom Kettle (1968). “The day's burden and other essays”

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• I always had a decent sense of outrage.

  Bella Abzug

  Decent

  Bella S. Abzug, Mim Kelber (1984). “Gender gap: Bella Abzug's guide to political power for American women”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• 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

  Media, Challenges, Television

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• Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

  Philip Roth

  Art, Humor, Moral

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• The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Done, May

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• 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

  Uncles, Mind, Genius

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• We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Revolution, Violent, Feels

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• What terrible harm Wagner did by interspersing his pages of genius with harmonic and modulatory outrages to which both young and old are gradually becoming accustomed and which have procreated d'Indy and Richard Strauss.

  Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

  Genius, Pages, Becoming

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• Me and Kirby are very collaborative and it changes from film to film. The first project we worked on together, Derrida, we co-directed. The last film Outrage, I was the producer and he was the director. This film was much more of a collaboration - he is the director and I am the producer - but this is a film by both of us.

  Amy Ziering

  Together, Directors, Collaboration

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• If H. P. Lovecraft and H. L. Mencken had ever collaborated, they might have come up with something like The Edge of Reason. This one will delight thinkers-and outrage true believers-of all stripes.

  George R. R. Martin

  Stripes, Delight, Might

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• There is such a thing as caste, even in the West; but it is comparatively faint; it is conservatism here. It says, forsake not your calling, outrage no institution, use no violence, rend no bonds; the State is thy parent. Its virtue or manhood is wholly filial.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Parent, India, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.99, Xist Publishing

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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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• 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

  Humility, Needs, Intense

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• While the principles of our Constitution give just latitude to inquiry, every citizen faithful to it will deem embodied expressions of discontent and open outrages of law and patriotism as dishonorable as they are injurious

  Thomas Jefferson

  Expression, Law, Giving

  Thomas Jefferson, Richard Holland Johnston, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association of the United States “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”

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