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If you aren't outraged, then you just aren't paying attention — Lisa Borden

The culture around us knows what it means when they see a church in perpetual bluster and outrage. They know that we are scared. — Russell D. Moore

Isn't it always unfair - death always a kind of outrage? A life ended too soon with jagged and torn edges, a sentence incomplete. — Rebecca Stott

To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity. — Blaise Pascal

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

Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun. — John Sandford

I always had a decent sense of outrage. — Bella Abzug

I sputtered for a minute. Then I consulted the ceiling. It was silent on the matter and, strangely, didn't seem to share my outrage. — Penny Reid

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

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

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

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

Fear is often disguised as moral outrage. — Judy Blume

Social security isn't a ponzi scheme. It's not bankrupting us. It's not an outrage. It is working. — Rachel Maddow

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love. — Martina Navratilova

You Griersons are a touchy bunch. One minute it's biscuits and model ships and the next minute it's outrage and horror. — Alden Bell

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

It is not righteousness to outrage — Sophocles

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

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

Wow. My feminist sensibilities are outraged," she murmured. "Yeah? I'll outrage them like they've never been outraged before. — Shannon McKenna

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

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

Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country? — Andrew Greeley

The twin pillars of outrage journalism: slut shaming and victim blaming. — Rob Thomas

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. — Glenn Close

Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know ... — Muriel Rukeyser

It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill. — Pierre Corneille

Pessimism is the basis of all sound expectations. If you foresee nothing good, no outrage can shock you. — Emma Jane Holloway

Wealth means power: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade. — Emma Goldman

Heart cannot think what outrage and what cries, with black smoke and flashing fire, the beast threw forth, turning the whole world to darkness. — Margaret Hodges

It's an all-fired outrage to tell any human creature that he's bound to hell. — Herman Melville

Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats. — H.L. Mencken

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.

I'm not some piece of ass that you can just use for the night," Jake said, surprised at his own outrage. "You've got to be kidding. — Katie Rose

Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear. — Joan Halifax

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

Complacency is a far more dangerous attitude than outrage.
Naomi Littlebear — Cherrie L. Moraga

The way towards simplicity is through outrage. — William Golding

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

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

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

There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob. — Herodotus

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity. — Victor Hugo

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

A blend of desolation and outrage. Or longing and fury. She wanted him back, she never wanted to see him again. — Ian McEwan

Unsaturated fat is an outrage. — Ian Paisley

Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage. — Hans-Hermann Hoppe

Wildly original, brilliantly comic, brutally gruesome, it is a dazzling performance that will probably outrage nearly as many readers as it delights. — Orville Prescott

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

No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage. — Clifford Bax

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 afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith. — Stephen Fry

Your vanity is ridiculous, your conduct an outrage, and your presence in my garden utterly absurd — Oscar Wilde

I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage. — Chris Hayes

India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal. — Shashi Tharoor

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

Am I right in thinkin' you've maybe been" - he dropped his voice - "the victim of an infamous outrage by the darkies? — J.R. Rain

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

Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage. — Jonah Goldberg

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art. — Philip Roth

Perry listened to the surf as their tempers drifted toward him, carrying disbelief and anxiousness and outrage. The silent roar of the Tides. — Veronica Rossi

Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people. — Mark Shields

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

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

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

A decision by Germany's highest court that banned the display of crosses or crucifixes in classrooms has sparked widespread outrage and protest. — Stephen Kinzer

It will finally be broadcast on the national news, to outrage, and to an instant forgetting. — Teju Cole

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

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

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

In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant. — William S. Burroughs

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

Sometimes, when outrage begat outrage with enough frequency, it threatened the fabric of the universe, and the universe pushed back. — Dennis Lehane

Sidious rejected outrage and intimidation for rankled curiosity. Is this the point where I'm expected to ask why I've been abducted? — James Luceno

Much of her outrage derived from a belated recognition that she was as human as anyone else. — Katherine Boo

Like the NRA says, it's better to have a machine gun and not need it than to need a machine gun and not have it. — John Sandford

Then my outrage wandered away: never do junk if you need to finish thoughts, sentences, or simple tasks. — Lynn Crosbie

Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom. — Daniel D. Palmer

The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense. — Thomas Paine

After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media. — Roxane Gay

I am not so afraid that I cannot see the truth. — John Sandford

If outrage were a sign of godliness, then the devil would be the godliest soul in Creation. — Russell D. Moore

My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage! — William Shakespeare

The sight of the Medusa head made the boar squeal in outrage. Maybe it looked too much like one of his relatives. — Rick Riordan

Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics. — Morton Blackwell

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

The problem with carnal anger and outrage is that it's one of the easiest sins to commit while convincing oneself that one is being faithful. The — Russell D. Moore

Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do. — Kathy Reichs

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. — George Combe

The rush of emotion unbalanced him, his initial outrage eclipsed by an all-consuming grief. — Stephen Lloyd Jones

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

If I get killed, put my boots back on me. — John Sandford

Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness. — Jennie Fields

Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage. — Bill Whittle

When any worthwhile thing is done in the world, it's usually done by somebody weird. — John Sandford

God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen. — Philip Yancey

Remember the metallic sound and taste of all of it. And the outrage. — Shirley Jackson

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 custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws. — Alexandre Dumas