Moral Outrage Quotes

#1. Sometimes things end worse for one side than the other. These 'injured parties' always seem to see themselves as victims of a moral outrage. They never feel simply rejected, but also abused. I've known many women who were great believers in the curative powers of indignation.

Lionel Shriver

#2. Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Philip Roth

#3. Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.

Bill Whittle

#4. 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

#5. Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.

Morton Blackwell

#6. Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.

Joan Halifax

#7. I personally do not believe in strident activism. I do not believe in moral outrage, because even moral outrage is rage, and rage is rage - it adds to more rage in the collective consciousness, if we understand how consciousness works.

Deepak Chopra

#8. When 'Carmen' premiered in 1875, it was panned by the critics. It survived 45 performances. It was called a musical and moral outrage. After Bizet died, at age 37, 'Carmen' became wildly popular. If you believe in your creation, and the rest of the world is laughing or yelling 'Boo,' don't give up.

Karen DeCrow

#9. Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.

Mason Cooley

#10. It's pretty standard fare in political discourse. You misconstrue what somebody said. You isolate a statement, you lend your interpretation to it and then feign moral outrage. And Democrats have been doing it for years.

John F. Kerry

#11. Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.

Hans-Hermann Hoppe

#12. Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.

Jonah Goldberg

#13. We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to do that by reporting the truth. And so there was the moral outrage over this general and the ambassador in Saigon who kept denying the truth we would see.

Neil Sheehan

#14. Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.

Judy Blume

#15. What is the purpose of these dolls?"

"To play with, of course."

"Do they look Ukrainian, with their plastic eyes and muddy features blended from every race on earth?

Paul Christensen

#16. I think we are in a non-essentialist bubble - everything seems important - so of course nothing is.

Greg McKeown

#17. It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.

Joseph Goebbels

#18. I'm more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent.

Dick Cheney

#19. Specialization makes the welfare of the society vulnerable to the market and to political forces beyond national control.

Robert Gilpin

#20. Garden is garden.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Aramus says you may, but you are not to perform any procedures on Avion or anyone else." "Darn, no game of Operation? And here I was wondering if Avion would beep if the tweezers touched the side.

Eve Langlais

#22. You think you're winning, but it's hard to say sometimes.

Dan Fogelberg

#23. Deer must be in the forest not in the zoo; monkey must be in the forest, not in the zoo; bear must be in the forest, not in the zoo! Animal prisons must be abolished!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#24. They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.

Criss Jami

#25. Well, I love fishing. I wouldn't kill a fly myself but I've no hesitation in killing a fish. A lot of men are like that. No bother. Out you come. Thump. And that's not the only reason.

Norman MacCaig