“People get addicted to feeling offended all the time because it gives them a high; being self-righteous and morally superior feels good.… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark whimsy to… — Jeremy Robert Johnson Copy Share Image
Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
The Tea Party movement itself is maybe 15, 20 percent of the electorate. It's relatively affluent, white, nativist. You know, it has… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Progress celebrates victories over nature. Progress makes purses out of human skin. When people were traveling in mail coaches, the world got… — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
There’s my baby!” I cried, quite carried away. “There’s my Poochiekins!” Ammit ran at me and leaped into my arms, nuzzling me… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
When I talked about Boeing and I talked about General Electric, what I was referring to is an outrage... Right now you… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
Surely by now there can be few here who still believe the purpose of government is to protect us from the destructive… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Because when you kill 300 people, 400 people, who have nothing to do with the provocations Hezbollah staged, but you do it… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
People know that billions of pounds are wasted. Billions of pounds never get near the families that need it. It is an… — George Osborne Copy Share Image
I remember in the spring of 1971, a hundred thousand people converged on the Pentagon in June of 1971. They threw blood;… — Wesley Clark Copy Share Image
Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
There is no way they should walk out of that place [Wells Fargo] with millions, tens of millions, tens and tens of… — John Kasich Copy Share Image
Most open letters undoubtedly come from a good place, rising out of genuine outrage or concern or care. There is, admittedly, also… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The most depressing thing about blogging is watching so-called 'citizen journalists' turn in to little more than easily offended partisan hacks. Any… — John Cole Copy Share Image
Wayde yelled, and I hit him again, adrenaline pulling a scream of outrage from me. He went quiet, and I held my… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was… — Amanda Schull Copy Share Image
[The Republican Party] consists of those who, believing in the doctrine that mankind are capable of governing themselves and hating hereditary power… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Not only do they offend thee, O Lady, who outrage thee, but thou art also offended by those who neglect to ask… — Bonaventure Copy Share Image
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
“I firmly believe that if we can all approach this topic with open minds, the inevitable result will be a level of… — Joseph Befumo Copy Share Image
Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission… — Louis Antoine de Saint-Just Copy Share Image
Discrimination and multiple deprivations of human rights are also frequently part of the problem, sentencing entire populations to poverty... It is surely… — Navi Pillay Copy Share Image
We've lost our sense of outrage, our anger, and our grief about what's going on in our culture right now, what's going… — Chris Jordan Copy Share Image
It takes the youth, really; they're the ones that should have the energy, it shouldn't be the old geezers, but the signs… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Way beyond the calls for equal pay, self-sovereignty, choice, political, legal and educational equality, as woman we each need to search our… — Christina Crawford Copy Share Image
“Under what circumstances does such outrage thrive? The territory of Utah, glorious as it may be, spiked by granite peaks and red… — David Ebershoff Copy Share Image
'The Prince's blunt candor has been a scandal for 500 years. The book was placed on the Papal Index of banned books… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the… — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
I worry about growing income inequality. But I worry even more that the discussion is too narrowly focused. I worry that our… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. The little slender flower had more courage than the green leaves, for they were… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
My friends on Twitter didn't abandon their beliefs or their principles - only their scorn. They channeled their infinitely justifiable offense and… — Megan Phelps-Roper Copy Share Image
We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to… — Neil Sheehan Copy Share Image
We were coming out of the black community with this thing called rap music, which was basically black men yelling at the… — Chuck D Copy Share Image