Best Moral Outrage Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Moral outrage is the opposite of God; it only divides and separates what God wants for us, which is to be united in kinship. Moral outrage doesn't lead us to solutions - it keeps us from them. It keeps us from moving forward toward a fuller, more compassionate response to members of our community who belong to us, no matter what they've done.”

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Book:Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

Source: Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship

“All who desire to confront the wrongs of the world must begin by acknowledging the deceptiveness of their own human hearts, our own as well as those of others.”

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Book:The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom

Source: The Magna Carta of Humanity: Sinai's Revolutionary Faith and the Future of Freedom

“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.”

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Author:Deepak Chopra

“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.”

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Author:Neil Sheehan

“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.”

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Author:John F. Kerry

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

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Author:Mason Cooley

“Facts are mere speed bumps on the road to lefty moral outrage.”

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Author:Jonah Goldberg

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage.”

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Author:Maggie Kuhn

“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.”

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Author:Marianne Williamson

“Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.”

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Author:Louis Kronenberger

“Fear is often disguised as moral outrage.”

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Author:Judy Blume

“All great art comes from a sense of outrage.”

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Author:Glenn Close

“Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, and insulted justice, and eternal truth, and mighty love and holy freedom.”

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Author:Maria Weston Chapman

“Compassion has enemies, and those enemies are things like pity, moral outrage, fear.”

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Author:Joan Halifax

“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.”

Source: My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel

“Both Marx and Nietzsche understood that moral outrage is the last resort of the powerless. That is why Marx refused to issue moral condemnations of capitalism, preferring instead to lay out, calmly and ruthlessly, his reasons for believing that it is destined to be replaced by socialism. And that is why Nietzsche mocks Christianity for portraying its crucified Saviour as bait wriggling on a hook to catch unsuspecting souls.”

“White privilege is the other side of racism. Unless we name it, we are in danger of wallowing in guilt or moral outrage with no idea of how to move beyond them. It is often easier to deplore racism and its effects than to take responsibility for the privileges some of us receive as a result of it... Once we understand how white privilege operates, we can begin to take steps to dismantle it on both a personal and institutional level.”

“Nothing penetrates the liberal's sense of moral outrage.”

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Author:Bill Whittle

“Moral outrage is the most powerful motivating force in politics.”

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Author:Morton Blackwell

“Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.”

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Author:Philip Roth