Outrage Quotes
173 quotes by 160 authors
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Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender. Shucked and boiled…
— Rex Stout
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Whether or not we continue to enforce a universal conception of human rights at moments of outrage and incomprehension, precisely when we think that others…
— Judith Butler
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Now death is uncool, old-fashioned. To my mind the defining characteristic of our era is spin, everything tailored to vanishing point by market research, brands…
— Tana French
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He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking…
— Peter De Vries
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They seemed to have taken all of their smoothly cultivated ignorance, their exquisitely learned self-hatred, their elaborately designed hopelessness and sucked it all up into…
— Toni Morrison
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To pursue truth with such astonishing lack of consideration for other people's feelings, to rend the think veils of civilisation so wantonly, so brutally, was…
— Virginia Woolf
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A wild longing for strong emotions and sensations seethes in me, a rage against this toneless, flat, normal and sterile life. I have a mad…
— Hermann Hesse
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Our belief is not a belief. Our principles are not a faith. We do not rely soley upon science and reason, because these are necessary…
— Christopher Hitchens
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What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
— Molly Ivins
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Bunbury? Oh, he was quite exploded. Exploded! Was he the victim of a revolutionary outrage? I was not aware that Mr. Bunbury was interested in…
— Oscar Wilde
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Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
— Judy Blume
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If you try to find a replacement, you'll be sadly disappointed, I can't be replaced. I'm the only man in all the world who possesses…
— Loretta Chase
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You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster. "With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . .…
— Lisa Kleypas
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He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do…
— Tabitha Suzuma
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You cheated!†He looked at her, wide-eyed with feigned outrage. “I beg your pardon. If you were a man, I would call you out for…
— Sarah MacLean
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The most work he did on [the urinals] was to run a brush once or twice apiece, singing some song as loud as he could…
— Ken Kesey
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Some things you must always be unable to bear. Some things you must never stop refusing to bear. Injustice and outrage and dishonor and shame.…
— William Faulkner
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Aunt Petunia burst into tears. Hestia Jones gave her an approving look that changed to outrage as Aunt Petunia ran forward and embraced Dudley rather…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.
— Victor Hugo
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A tiny dark object came sailing out of the window and landed at the giant's feet. Polybotes yelled, "Grenade!" He covered his face. His troops…
— Rick Riordan
Who Wrote These Outrage Quotes
160 authors contributed a total of 173 Outrage Quotes, led by these top contributors: