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
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
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
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
We need some rules changes. This is an outrage that this, the oldest democracy has now, you know, ranked - when I… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
Our outrage at inequality is primal. But primal emotions are not always noble ones. Of course, when I see a colleague receive… — Sendhil Mullainathan Copy Share Image
Democrats cannot win elections without capturing the votes of independent-minded swing voters. And that is where writing off the Tea Party as… — Juan Williams Copy Share Image
If you want to be a real human being - a real woman, a real man - you cannot tolerate things which… — Stephane Hessel Copy Share Image
Have you ever noticed how few sitting places you find in private gardens? How seldom the versatility and importance of benches is… — Mirabel Osler Copy Share Image
The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage… — Adam McKay Copy Share Image
Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning.… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There are many things in this world that are an outrage, to be sure, but death at our current life expectancy doesn’t… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
The scandalous question that hangs over modern government and excites perpetual outrage is about political money and what it buys. What exactly… — William Greider Copy Share Image
I cannot find words to express the depth of my loss or outrage about what's happening to this country. I don't know… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
This idea that players were kneeling in support of social justice was something some people couldn't wrap their head around. The outrage… — Brian Flores Copy Share Image
We know that this nation entered into solemn treaties [with Indian tribes] which have been continuously violated for more than 250 years.… — John McCain Copy Share Image
The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
The combined outrage of the millions of creatures which have suffered at the hands of man may well combine to haunt us.… — Dennis Bardens Copy Share Image
What outrages me as a representative of journalists is that there's not more outrage about the number, and the brutality, and the… — Linda Foley Copy Share Image
If the drug war was waged in those communities it would spark such outrage that the war would end overnight. This literal… — Michelle Alexander Copy Share Image
“Sexually active? Sexually active ? Patrick and I hadn't even learned the fine points of kissing yet! I marched on down. 'For… — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor Copy Share Image
The absolutist lays down the law, but the relativist hears only roaring and bawling. Or, when the relativist voice, as it is… — Simon Blackburn Copy Share Image
Twentieth century music is like paedophilia. No matter how persuasively and persistently its champions urge their cause, it will never be accepted… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself.… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“Ethan was American, and so had a great capacity for indignation, forgiveness, and a firm belief in the powers of individual action.… — Annie Ward Copy Share Image
That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and… — John Lewis Copy Share Image
To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I am not attracted to writers by style. What style do Dickens, Grass, and Vonnegut have in common? How silly! I am… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will… — Marie Antoinette Copy Share Image
The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
There is no book which tells of a more infamous monster than the Old Testament, with its Jehovah of murder and cruelty… — Helen H. Gardener 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
In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual…Physically and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to… — David Simon Copy Share Image
“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
In New York that probably has more lawyers per square foot than any other state in the union, more women lawyers. I… — Eleanor Smeal Copy Share Image
To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly,… — Virginia Woolf 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
![“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.” quote by John McCain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/da8/john-mccain-465_disgrace_we-know-that-this-nation-entered-into-so_2442091.jpg)
![“On another front of the category-error argument are the insufferable fogeys who think the [Nobel] award is an outrage upon literature itself. That the problem is not simply a mistake may have been made about definitions, but that awful vulgarians are encroaching upon their sacred places. [Bob]…” quote by David Bennun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e58/david-bennun-25818_argument_on-another-front-of-the-category-error-a_3144959.jpg)
![“That's where the outrage should be, not old news, but the fact that we are preparing for the transfer of power. and we have been working with President [Barack] Obama, hand in glove, and I think that they - including the president - should step up and get his people in line and tell them to grow…” quote by John Lewis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b0e/john-lewis-1310_accepting_that-s-where-the-outrage-should-be-not-o_2961928.jpg)
