My patriotism is of the kind which is outraged by the notion that the United States never was a great nation until in a petty three months' campaign it knocked to pieces a poor, decrepit, bankrupt old state like Spain. To hold such an opinion as that is to abandon all American standards, to put shame and scorn on all that our ancestors tried to build up here, and to go over to the standards of which Spain is a representative.
Innocence seldom utters outraged shrieks. Guilt does.
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
They [leftists] are outraged when people are not cranky and not miserable. They want everybody to be, if they are. It isn't fair that some people should be enjoying life when other people don't.
They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they won't be able to be outraged anymore.
I had a naïve idea that if I could tell the story, people would be outraged and do something about conditions in the jails.
To be governed is, under pretext of public utility and in the name of the general interest, to be laid under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, exhausted, hoaxed and robbed; then, upon the slightest resistance, at the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, annoyed, hunted down, pulled about, beaten, disarmed, bound, imprisoned, shot, judged, condemned, banished, sacrificed, sold, betrayed, and, to crown all, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored.
Get informed. Get outraged. Get inspired. Get active.
It is time that outraged public sentiment cry out in detestation of the outrages committed in the name of religion.
I didn't want to be a boy, ever, but I was outraged that his height and intelligence were graces for him and gaucheries for me.
Children consider disliking their parents natural, but if the dislike is returned, they are outraged.
Fascism itself can only be turned away if all those who are outraged by it show a commitment to social justice that equals the intensity of their indignation.
I'm angry. Yes, I am outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House.
When will there be justice in Athens? There will be justice in Athens when those who are not injured are as outraged as those who are.
Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored. . . . Better to die than to live in slavery.
I'm really shocked when critics get morally outraged at my fiction because they think I'm condoning what's going on. I never come in as the author and say, "Hey, okay. I'm interrupting the narrator here. I'm Bret Easton Ellis, and I'm the author. "
It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings.
