Outrage Quotes - Page 2

• Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

  Maggie Kuhn

  Age, Excellent, Moral Outrage

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• Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.

  Daniel D. Palmer

  Land, People, Liberty

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• I believe in using words, not fists.

  Susan Sarandon

  Believe, Fists, Using Words

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• What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.

  Molly Ivins

  Respect, Needs, Too Much

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• In the world of perpetual outrage, people cannot see the difference between deflated footballs, a dead lion, and dismembered babies.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Football, Baby, Differences

  Twitter post from Jul 29, 2015

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• 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

  Moving, Heart, Eye

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• Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Law, Coward

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.817, GENERAL PRESS

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• When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you have a loophole such that these guys are putting their profits, multi-billion dollar profitable corporations putting billions of dollars into the Cayman Islands, Bermuda, and other tax havens.

  Bernie Sanders

  Islands, Guy, Boeing

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, www.nytimes.com. February 5, 2016.

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• I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.

  Gary Numan

  Lying, Dark, Light

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• My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.

  William Cowper

  Sick, Soul, Earth

  William Cowper (1855). “Thoughts on War and Warriors; extracted from the poetical writings of William Cowper”, p.15

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• It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs are very worrying. Half of them, apparently, don't believe in global warming. They think it's a hoax, which is more of that stupid, stick-their-head-in-the-sand attitude. Where is the outrage at the generations that have preceded them spending all the money? But the cynicism is so deep and so ingrained; I guess no one feels they can do anything.

  Bill Maher

  Attitude, Stupid, Believe

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• It is not righteousness to outrage

  Sophocles

  Righteousness

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Eurípides, Aristophanes, Menander (of Athens.) (1938). “The complete Greek drama: all the extant tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, and the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, in a variety of translations”

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• 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

  Thinking, Essentials, Want

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• 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

  Anger, Desire, Climate

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• It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I’m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery.

  Barack Obama

  Talking, Common Humanity, Names

  President Barack Obama's remarks at Clinton Global Initiative at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers in New York City, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. September 23, 2014.

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• We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years. It's a disgrace. It's an outrage. We must do everything in our power to keep those treaties. Otherwise, the word of the United States government is no good.

  John McCain

  Years, Government, Tribes

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• Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

  Rachel Maddow

  Social, Ponzi Scheme, Schemes

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• Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry.

  J. K. Rowling

  Uncles, Aunt, Boys

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.13, Pottermore

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• Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it in effect deliberately by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Numbers, People, Enemy

  "Zbig Brzezinski: Israel’s Actions in Lebanon Essentially Amount to 'the Killing of Hostages'” by Steve Clemons, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 26, 2006.

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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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• Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

  Jean Cocteau

  Modesty, Blind, Constant

  "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.

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• The key is to put your outrage in a place where you can get it when you need to, but not have it bubble up so much, especially when you're asked to explain new ideas or explain what you observed two people who share none of your experiences.

  Ron Suskind

  Keys, Ideas, Two

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• By the time I actually recorded Bitter Tears I carried a heavy load of sadness and outrage; I felt every word of those songs... I expected there to be trouble with that album, and there was.... when it was released, many radio stations wouldn't play it.... The very idea of unconventional or even original ideas ending up on "country" radio in the late 1990s is absurd.

  Johnny Cash

  Country, Song, Sadness

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• In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I mean, it to me shocking that this can happen in 2008, but fortunately, you had a governor who was sensitive enough to this outrage that he pointed it out to the nation, and is trying to do something about it.

  Eleanor Smeal

  New York, Mean, Squares

  Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.

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• 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

  Science, Apology, Unique

  William James (2013). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.9, Courier Corporation

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