Outrage Quotes

• It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

  

  Sophocles
  • Hate
  • Dead
  • Outrage

• 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.

  

  Kristine Carlin Bay
  • Internet
  • Television
  • Outrage

• Old age is an excellent time for outrage.

  

  Maggie Kuhn
  • Time
  • Age
  • Outrage

• In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • World
  • Irrelevant
  • Flash

• The apparent widespread abuse of loans provided through the Supplemental Terrorist Activity Relief Act is nothing short of an outrage.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Abuse
  • Loan
  • Supplemental Terrorist Activity Relief Act

• It is really intolerable that we can say only one thing at a time; for social behavior displays many features at the same time, and so in taking them up one by one we necessarily do outrage to its rich, dark, organic unity.

  

  George C. Homans
  • Dark
  • Rich
  • Social

• It is not righteousness to outrage.

  

  Sophocles
  • Righteousness
  • Outrage

• 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
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Lawyers

• I always had a decent sense of outrage.

  

  Bella Abzug
  • Sense
  • Outrage

• 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
  • Democracy
  • Citizens
  • Injustice

• Everybody should be mad but anger only takes you so far. At some point, you'll have outrage fatigue and burn out.

  

  Van Jones
  • Should
  • Mad
  • Outrage

• 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 Van Halen
  • Women
  • Public
  • Threat

• Dodd continued to hope that the murders would so outrage the German public that the regime would fall, but as the days passed he saw no evidence of any such outpouring of anger.

  

  Erik Larson
  • Political
  • Fall
  • Politics

• First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Truth
  • First
  • Outrage

• My feeling was, if we're going to tell the story about people rioting and burning down embassies, it's part of the story to know what it is that has caused such outrage.

  

  Chris Wallace
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Story

• Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.

  

  Seth MacFarlane
  • Media
  • Presses
  • Outrage

• I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • War
  • Fight
  • Duty

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

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Respect
  • Needs
  • Authority

• There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Point
  • Outrage
  • Trespassed

• 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
  • Passion
  • Taught
  • Niceness

• Where is the outrage of the Muslim community? Why aren’t the imams of every mosque holding press conferences, and inviting the media to tell the American public, ‘We are Americans first. Any enemy of America is our enemy. We will work to find, stop, arrest, turn in, and condemn anyone in our community who aspires to radicalize our religion and harm our country’?

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • American Public
  • Muslim community
  • Imams

• Outrage, combining as it does shock, anger, reproach, and helplessness, is perhaps the most unmanageable, the most demoralizing of all the emotions.

  

  Margery Allingham
  • Emotions
  • Anger
  • Outrage

• The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial conditions and processes in order to make outrages upon them not outrageous.

  

  William Morris Davis
  • Process
  • Conditions
  • Easier

• Unsaturated fat is an outrage.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Fat
  • Outrage

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