Outrage Quotes
173 quotes by 160 authors
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To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
— Blaise Pascal
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have…
— Walter Lippmann
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Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline,…
— R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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I mean it used to be, there was a time … when lynchings of African Americans were not that incredibly rare. Now the lynchings are…
— Ben Stein
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The mob is man voluntarily descending to the nature of the beast. Its fit hour of activity is night. Its actions are insane like its…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her…
— Laura Davies
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The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
— Thomas Paine
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Unsaturated fat is an outrage.
— Ian Paisley
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Nothing we can do outrages Nature directly. Our acts of destruction give her new vigour and feed her energy, but none of our wreckings can…
— Marquis de Sade
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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…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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The Church of Christ has been founded by shedding its own blood, not that of others; by enduring outrage, not by inflicting it. Persecutions have…
— St. Jerome
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It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage.…
— Andrew Solomon
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There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
— Herodotus
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The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians…
— Marie Antoinette
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Monarchy is an outrage which even the blind of an entire people cannot justify... all men hold from nature the secret mission to destroy wherever…
— Louis Antoine de Saint-Just
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It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
— Sophocles
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Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of…
— William Allen White
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In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to…
— Emma Goldman
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And…
— Carl Hiaasen
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I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty.…
— Bertrand Russell
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