That Is An Outrage Quotes

#1. Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.

Winston S. Churchill

#2. Money - you demolish cities, root men from their homes, you train and twist good minds and set them on to the most atrocious schemes. No limit, you make them adept at every kind of outrage, every godless crime - money

Sophocles

#3. God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.

Philip Yancey

#4. Doctor, they are very proud, these Nobles; but we common dogs are proud too, sometimes. They plunder us, outrage us, beat us, kill us; but we have a little pride left, sometimes.

Charles Dickens

#5. I'm a comic, and I'm supposed to outrage and make people laugh, Part of makin' people laugh is to shake up their thinkin'. That's what I came here to do.

Roseanne Barr

#6. A safe and inclusive society is worthless if a person cannot speak their mind. Censorship and manufactured outrage are the problem and not the solution.

Carmine Savastano

#7. The more clearly the immensely speculative nature of geological science is recognized, the easier it becomes to remodel our concepts of any inferred terrestrial conditions and processes in order to make outrages upon them not outrageous.

William Morris Davis

#8. I worship nothing. Not a good lie nor a dark one. If nature is proof of God's amazing creation then I have truly seen the light, and the light is black. Nature is genius at its most cruel and savage. No benevolent God could have come up with such an outrage.

Gary Numan

#9. Outrage steamed her brain. "I've waited three days... Do you know what day it is?"
He gave a one-sided shrug, his massive shoulder muscles shifting. "Who has time to check the calendar when people are shooting at you and snakes are biting you in the ass?

Dana Marton

#10. If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

Bob Dole

#11. No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.

Clifford Bax

#12. She had to work to find her outrage again. When she did, it was whimpering in delight.

Thea Harrison

#13. Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.

Kathy Reichs

#14. What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.

Tim DeChristopher

#15. Remember the metallic sound and taste of all of it. And the outrage.

Shirley Jackson

#16. It isn't illegal to buy an artist's work for peanuts and sell it again at any price one can get. But it is an outrage!

Murray Leinster

#17. Leo's voice boomed over the loudspeaker: SURRENDER! YOU ARE SURROUNDED BY ONE SPANKING HOT WAR MACHINE! The giant Enceladus howled in outrage. "Valdez!" WHAT'S UP, ENCHILADAS? Leo's voice roared back. NICE DAGGER IN YOUR FOREHEAD.

Rick Riordan

#18. 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 hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.

Adam McKay

#19. I became a feminist activist propelled in part by outrage and despair, and a stubborn determination to shape a life, and create a literature, that was not a lie.

Dorothy Allison

#20. Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

Victor Hugo

#21. Internet outrage can seem mindless, but it rarely is. To make that assumption is dismissive. There's something beneath the outrage - an unwillingness to be silent in the face of ignorance, hatred or injustice. Outrage may not always be productive, but it is far better than silence.

Roxane Gay

#22. That the Iraqi Government is considering a political deal granting amnesty to insurgents who have attacked or killed American service members is not just shocking - the idea of amnesty for insurgents is an outrage.

Ike Skelton

#23. I think we're ripe for social revolution now. There is the necessary yearning, and the necessary, or at least incipient, outrage. And there is an inchoate knowing that all is not right.

Marianne Williamson

#24. It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.

Pierre Corneille

#25. That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

Victor Hugo

#26. Whenever someone accuses someone of being a racist - which is rare, you have to admit, considering how much racism there is - there is an incredible outrage. I realized that we live in an environment that it seems to be worse to call someone a racist than to be one.

Fran Lebowitz

#27. God thundered again and again through the prophets that worship in the context of mistreatment of the poor and disadvantaged is an outrage.

Ronald J. Sider

#28. Survivors of atrocity of every age and every culture come to a point in their testimony where all questions are reduced to one, spoken more in bewilderment than in outrage: Why? The answer is beyond human understanding.

Judith Lewis Herman

#29. The administration's attempt to keep us from selling agricultural products to Cuba is an outrage. Cuba is not a threat. That is why we must do more to open Cuba - not less.

Max Baucus

#30. I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music.

Dave Brubeck

#31. Human trafficking is a human tragedy. It's an outrage against any decent people.

Mark Shields

#32. 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.

John McCain

#33. Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?

Andrew Greeley

#34. India is my country, and in that sense my outrage is personal.

Shashi Tharoor

#35. One of the sad things about contemporary journalism is that it actually matters very little. The world now is almost inured to the power of journalism. The best journalism would manage to outrage people. And people are less and less inclined to outrage.

David Simon

#36. I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.

David Lee Roth

#37. 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

#38. I see he had his shorts on under the towel all along.
I think for a fact that she'd rather he'd of been stark naked under that towel than had on those shorts. She's glaring at those big white whales leaping round on his shorts in pure wordless outrage.

Ken Kesey

#39. It is an outrage that people can take other people's lives when they obviously haven't got their own lives in order.

George Harrison

#40. And the transfer initiates with forgiving parents will be able to see them again too. I suspect mine will not be among them. Not after my father's cry of outrage at the ceremony. Not after both their children left them.

Veronica Roth

#41. I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.

Stephen Fry

#42. Then my outrage wandered away: never do junk if you need to finish thoughts, sentences, or simple tasks.

Lynn Crosbie

#43. Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

Rex Stout

#44. The sight of the Medusa head made the boar squeal in outrage. Maybe it looked too much like one of his relatives.

Rick Riordan

#45. Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

Dwight Garner

#46. The idea of God holding a grudge against us and needing to be asked to forgive us is an outrage on the Fatherhood of God.

Charles Webster Leadbeater

#47. Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness.

Jennie Fields

#48. I found Deborah waiting for me, slumped into my chair and looking like the poster girl for the National Brooding Outrage Foundation.

Jeff Lindsay

#49. Many humanists in the West are stirred by a sense of outrage at what professed Christians, past and present, have done; and this makes them see their humanism as a kind of crusade, with the killing of Christianity as its prime goal.

J.I. Packer

#50. Where's your warrant?" asked McGinty. "By Gar! a man might as well live in Russia as in Vermissa while folk like you are running the police. It's a capitalist outrage, and you'll hear more of it, I reckon.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#51. Torn between violence and disillusionment, I seem to myself a terrorist who, going out in the street to perpetrate some outrage, stops on the way to consult Ecclesiastes or Epictetus.

Emil Cioran

#52. Cunt-lapping, mother-fucking, and cock-sucking are words to provoke a sense of outrage. Being forced to play the role of a woman in sexual intercourse is the deepest imaginable humiliation, which is only worsened if the victim finds to his horror that he enjoys it.

Germaine Greer

#53. First of all move me, surprise me, rend my heart; make me tremble, weep, shudder; outrage me; delight my eyes afterwards if you can.

Denis Diderot

#54. We deplore the outrages which accompany revolutions. But the more violent the outrages, the more assured we feel that a revolution was necessary.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#55. I assume the closest members of my family don't actually want to kill me, but the truth is that I have shamed and hurt them; they have to deal with the outrage that my public statements cause, and undoubtedly some members of my clan do want to kill me for that.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#56. You Griersons are a touchy bunch. One minute it's biscuits and model ships and the next minute it's outrage and horror.

Alden Bell