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"Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country."

--- Abraham Lincoln

#Latter #Snow #Order

"Increasingly, I wonder if there are any outrages that would be sufficiently ominous in their effects upon liberty and unequivocal in their moral perversity to awaken the American people to the tyrannical spirit that envelopes the Clinton White House."

--- Alan Keyes

#People #Effects #Outrage

"Famously, there's not really anywhere to go after nihilism. It's not progressing toward anything, it's a statement of outrage, however brilliant."

--- Alan Moore

#Nihilism #Outrage #Progress

"I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available."

--- Albert Einstein

#Mean #Fighting #War

"In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature."

--- Aldous Huxley

#Dogma #Commit #Courses

"If one had to worry about one's actions in respect of other people's ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon."

--- Aleister Crowley

#People #Violinist #Inferiors

"The task of the artist is to sense more keenly than others the harmony of the world, the beauty and the outrage of what man has done to it, and poignantly to let people know."

--- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#People #Outrage #World

"The representatives of the people, in a popular assembly, seem sometimes to fancy that they are the people themselves, and betray strong symptoms of impatience and disgust at the least sign of opposition from any other quarter; as if the exercise of its rights, by either the executive or judiciary, were a breach of their privilege and an outrage to their dignity."

--- Alexander Hamilton

#People #Legislature #Congress

"Every small wrong, every minor act of cruelty, every act of petty bullying was symbolic of a greater wrong. And if we ignored these small things, then did it not blunt our outrage over the larger wrongs?"

--- Alexander McCall Smith

#Cruelty #Ignored #Outrage

"The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws."

--- Alexandre Dumas

#Today #Outrage #Arbitrary

"I came to the United States in 1981 as a student.When I left, I was totally the most beloved little flower in China and so it was an outrage basically."

--- Amanda Schull

#Outrage #United #United States

"For the first four years of my studying in the U.S., I couldn't go home for two reasons. One is I was afraid that if I left my student visa may not hold and I wouldn't be able to come back to continue. Second, there was this big outrage in China that I didn't know how to face the public."

--- Amanda Schull

#Reason #Four Years #Know How

"Me and Kirby are very collaborative and it changes from film to film. The first project we worked on together, Derrida, we co-directed. The last film Outrage, I was the producer and he was the director. This film was much more of a collaboration - he is the director and I am the producer - but this is a film by both of us."

--- Amy Ziering

#Lasts #Projects #Derrida

"The child in me could not die as it should have died, because according too legends it must find its father again. The old legends knew, perhaps, that in absence the father becomes glorified, deified, eroticized, and this outrage against God the Father has to be atoned for. The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless."

--- Anais Nin

#Legends #Died #Outrage

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

--- Andrew Greeley

#People #Long #Outrage

"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. You should steer clear of emotionally damaging behavior. People forgive, but it is best not to stir things up to the point at which forgiveness is required. When you are depressed, you need the love of other people, and yet depression fosters actions that destroy that love. Depressed people often stick pins into their own life rafts. The conscious mind can intervene. One is not helpless."

--- Andrew Solomon

#People #Terrible #Helpless

"So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility."

--- Ani DiFranco

#Human Beings #Outrage #Intense

"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."

--- Anita Roddick

#Thinking #Outrage #Spirit

"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

--- Antonio Tabucchi

#Mean #Europe #Outrage

"Only a few years ago did it suddenly dawn on me that my existential fear regarding my nation’s future and my moral outrage regarding my nation’s occupation policy are not unconnected. On the one hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is occupying another people. On the other hand, Israel is the only nation in the West that is existentially threatened. Both occupation and intimidation make the Israeli condition unique. Intimidation and occupation have become the two pillars of our condition."

--- Ari Shavit

#Occupation #People #Outrage

"As a blogger, Chez Pazienza is filled with outrage, passion and insight -- delivered with a distinctive point of view, a wicked sense of humor, and a two-fisted style of prose. In Dead Star Twilight, he turns all these on himself -- and produces a fierce, funny, disturbing, but ultimately uplifting memoir. This is the book A Million Little Pieces dreamed of being."

--- Arianna Huffington

#Fierce #Book #Passion

"Can't the United States see that when we allow someone to be tortured by our agents, it is not only the victim and the perpetrator who are corrupted, not only the "intelligence" that is contaminated, but also everyone who looked away and said they did not know, everyone who consented tacitly to that outrage so they could sleep a little safer at night, all the citizens who did not march in the streets by the millions to demand the resignation of whoever suggested, even whispered, that torture is inevitable in our day and age, that we must embrace its darkness?"

--- Ariel Dorfman

#Perpetrators #Said #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."

--- Aristotle

#Democracy #Outrage #Injustice

"My father's death from prostate cancer in 1993 was tragic. He never complained about pain. He was a fighter. By the time he was ready to die he wasn't able to die in the way that he wanted to, which seemed an outrage to me."

--- Zoe Wanamaker

#Prostate #Ready #Cancer

"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 by being indifferent to the scale of collateral damage, you're killing hostages in the hope of intimidating those that you want to intimidate. And more likely than not you will not intimidate them. You'll simply outrage them and make them into permanent enemies with the number of such enemies increasing."

--- Zbigniew Brzezinski

#Effects #Enemy #Killing

"The injustice is that women continue to be the main target of violence both during wartime and peacetime and yet there is still a lack of a public outrage."

--- Zainab Salbi

#Outrage #Injustice #Stills

"First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along."

--- Arthur Schopenhauer

#Said #Outrage #Firsts

"Global warming, the ongoing destruction of the planet, Third World debt, the uselessness of the railways, the takeover by the corporations, the scary George Bush person: all these things are important and should be animating me into outrage. Yet somehow they do not."

--- Arthur Smith

#Ongoing #Third World #Takeovers

"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 Churchill

#People #Humorous #Speech

"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

#Outrage #Closest #Clans

"Those of us whose parenting style can be described as "a series of reflexes, instincts, and minute-by-minute adjustments," as Julie of A Little Pregnant puts it, rather than as a philosophy, are less invested in our own practices. What we do is often less a matter of conviction than one of convenience. What we need to remember is that there is no need to apologize for that, even in the face of the most red-faced outrage."

--- Ayelet Waldman

#Style #Red #Outrage

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