Top 350 Outrage Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.
Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.
If we simply act on emotion or outrage, there is no justice.
We normally think of history as one catastrophe after another, war followed by war, outrage by outrage - almost as if history were nothing more than all the narratives of human pain, assembled in sequence. And surely this is, often enough, an adequate description. But history is also the narratives of grace, the recountings of those blessed and inexplicable moments when someone did something for someone else, saved a life, bestowed a gift, gave something beyond what was required by circumstance.
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore. — © Marian Wright Edelman
There are levels of outrage, and there's a point at which you can't be trespassed upon anymore.
Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.
No democracy can exist unless each of its citizens is as capable of outrage at injustice to another as he is of outrage at unjustice to himself.
It is only blood that can wash away such an outrage; die or kill.
Lion is a beautiful creature. It's a wonderful creature. But it's easy outrage. And I also believe that this kind of outrage is a consequence of a moral cowardice in the face of other evil, that you transfer your impotence about other - in other arenas to this, because you know that people will agree with you that this is really bad, but there are serious outrages out there that are bigger than a lion.
Problematic' is one of these meaningless jargon words that people on the internet outrage circles throw at one another.
I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.
Democracy allows for A and B to band together to rip off C. This is not justice, but a moral outrage.
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.
God endorses the confusion and even outrage that we feel when mysterious things happen.
I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this or that. — © Eric Reid
I think our society today, the negativity is at the forefront, so you see all the people that have outrage about this or that.
What you need is sustained outrage...there's far too much unthinking respect given to authority.
Old age is an excellent time for outrage.
It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.
In this world, [of Flash and Filigree] nothing is true, and censure or outrage is simply irrelevant.
Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
Unsaturated fat is an outrage.
Outrage is something Donald Trump typically has in no short supply.
Anti-Semitic insults by 'Svoboda' have caused outrage on number of occasions both in Ukraine and in Israel.
The outrage was on the scale of God. My younger brother was immortal and they hadn't noticed. Immortality had been concealed in my brother's body while he was alive, and we hadn't noticed that it dwelt there. Now my brother's body was dead, and immortality with it. ... And the error, the outrage, filled the whole universe.
I think this an outrage and I think the fact that the KGB is involved in this election [2016] is an outrage and I think the American people ought to take their democracy back regardless of what the press wants to do and the excuses they want to make for [James] Comey. That's what I think.
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.
Marijuana is the finest anti-nausea medication known to science, and our leaders have lied about this consistently. [Arresting people for] medical marijuana is the most hideous example of government interference in the private lives of individuals. It's an outrage within an outrage within an outrage.
Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.
All great art comes from a sense of outrage.
During the Brexit campaign there was a deficit of outrage.
You think I'd cheat on you?" I demanded with all the innocent outrage I could muster. "With another guy, no. With a cheeseburger . . . in a heartbeat.
I always had a decent sense of outrage.
Most of the outrage comes from not the public, but from the media, the press and writers.
Wherever you look - especially on social media - we see hate; there is shouting and daily outrage.
Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.
No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage.
The Internet is the vehicle we're driving to share our visuals, outrage, and ideas around the world.
Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.
Is the patience of the American people that long suffering? Is there no outrage left in the country?
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage. — © George Combe
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
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 in time to the swishing brush; then he'd splash in some Clorox and he'd be through. ... And when the Big Nurse...came in to check McMurphy's cleaning assignment personally, she brought a little compact mirror and she held it under the rim of the bowls. She walked along shaking her head and saying, "Why, this is an outrage... an outrage..." at every bowl. McMurphy sidled right along beside her, winking down his nose and saying in answer, "No; that's a toilet bowl...a TOILET bowl.
I see a continuation of the populist outrage that prompted the Brexit and sparked the Bernie Sanders campaign.
There isn't as much passion and outrage in today's newspapers. That may be because of a corporate decision, but they've lost their personality.
The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.
A Sense Of Outrage Is Essential For The Entrepreneurial Spirit. I Think Discontentment Drives You To Want To Do Something About It. And My Outrage Came Very Early On.
Perhaps we have to remember that there are forms of outrage that do not lead to any sort of mobilization, and there are ways of "registering the facts" that do not lead to outrage.
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.
To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.
I don't think I ever intend to provoke outrage, but I don't mind being provocative in content.
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled. — © William Cowper
My soul is sick with every day's report of wrong and outrage with which earth is filled.
Outrage and possibility are in all the poems we know.
I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.
Compulsory vaccination is an outrage and a gross interference with the liberty of the people in a land of freedom.
Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.
The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
I've got about 5 million followers on Twitter, and if I tweet anything, there will be faux outrage.
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.
It is not righteousness to outrage
After the Boston Marathon bombings, people shared grief and outrage on social media.
Channel your outrage ... Do that which you are able to do.
I have always thought the women's movement traded too much on outrage and not enough on ridicule.
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