{"quotes":[{"text":"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.","author":"H.L. Mencken","tags":["diplomacy","love","outrage"],"id":8232,"author_id":"H.L.+Mencken"},{"text":"For the senior officers in Iraq, at least in 2005-2006, the responsibility was to the men at the top, the media, the message, the public back home - anything and everything, it seemed, but the soldiers under their command. And that's the ultimate betrayal of Iraq, the one that disillusioned me in Baghdad and Nineveh and keeps me outraged today.","author":"Luis Carlos Montalván","tags":["army","betrayal","iraq","military","outrage"],"id":17156,"author_id":"Luis+Carlos+Montalv%C3%A1n"},{"text":"Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage.","author":"Constance Friday","tags":["audacity","bold","boldness","challenge","confront","courage","express","expression","expression-of-true-feelings","fight","freedom","outrage","power","rage","shy","timid"],"id":22454,"author_id":"Constance+Friday"},{"text":"...Then inn a conversational tone said, 'I slapped my Aunt Martha. When my fiancé died. She told me God needed him in heaven, and I hauled off and slapped her, a sixty year old woman....People say unbelievable things to you. They deserve slapping.","author":"Connie Willis","tags":["anger","death","outrage","slapping"],"id":29935,"author_id":"Connie+Willis"},{"text":"Protests can sometimes, necessarily, simplify things.","author":"Madam Secretary","tags":["communication","contemplation","noise","outrage"],"id":57600,"author_id":"Madam+Secretary"},{"text":"The most confused you will ever get is when you try to convince your heart and spirit of something your mind knows is a lie.","author":"Shannon L. Alder","tags":["acceptance","actions","beliefs","common-sense","confusion","disbelief","evidence","faith","family","hoping","life-purpose","love","mixed-signals","obvious","outrage","proof","reality","religion","sorrow","timing","truth","unrequited-love"],"id":129895,"author_id":"Shannon+L.+Alder"},{"text":"They call good evil and evil good. There are those who are so easily offended that they lose their ability to ever discern any truth, and this is often derived from a sort of frenzy by way of their own masked prejudice.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["coward","discernment","dishonesty","evil","facts","fake-outrage","frenzy","good","honesty","immorality","judgmental","logic","mask","moral-compass","morality","offended","outrage","prejudice","reason","truth"],"id":130658,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"All Religions have this in common, that they are an outrage to common sense for they are pieced together out of a variety of elements, some of which seem so unworthy, sordid and at odds with man’s reason, that any strong and vigorous intelligence laughs at them... The human intellect is only capable of tackling mediocre subjects: it disdains petty subjects, and is startled by large ones. There is no reason to be surprised if it finds any religion hard to accept at first, for all are deficient in the mediocre and the commonplace, nor that it should require skill to induce belief. For the strong intellect laughs at religion, while the weak and superstitious mind marvels at it but is easily scandalized by it.","author":"Pierre Charron","tags":["catholic-theologian","common-religions","common-sense","intelligence","outrage","reason","scandalize","superstition","theologian"],"id":178407,"author_id":"Pierre+Charron"},{"text":"Imagine a young Isaac Newton time-travelling from 1670s England to teach Harvard undergrads in 2017. After the time-jump, Newton still has an obsessive, paranoid personality, with Asperger’s syndrome, a bad stutter, unstable moods, and episodes of psychotic mania and depression. But now he’s subject to Harvard’s speech codes that prohibit any “disrespect for the dignity of others”; any violations will get him in trouble with Harvard’s Inquisition (the ‘Office for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion’). Newton also wants to publish Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, to explain the laws of motion governing the universe. But his literary agent explains that he can’t get a decent book deal until Newton builds his ‘author platform’ to include at least 20k Twitter followers – without provoking any backlash for airing his eccentric views on ancient Greek alchemy, Biblical cryptography, fiat currency, Jewish mysticism, or how to predict the exact date of the Apocalypse.Newton wouldn’t last long as a ‘public intellectual’ in modern American culture. Sooner or later, he would say ‘offensive’ things that get reported to Harvard and that get picked up by mainstream media as moral-outrage clickbait. His eccentric, ornery awkwardness would lead to swift expulsion from academia, social media, and publishing. Result? On the upside, he’d drive some traffic through Huffpost, Buzzfeed, and Jezebel, and people would have a fresh controversy to virtue-signal about on Facebook. On the downside, we wouldn’t have Newton’s Laws of Motion.","author":"Geoffrey Miller","tags":["alchemy","asperger-s","asperger-s-syndrome","asperger-syndrome","awkwardness","backlash","clickbait","cryptography","depression","dignity","disrespect","diversity","eccentric","equity","expulsion","inclusion","inquisition","intellectual","isaac-newton","laws","literary-agent","mania","moods","mysticism","obsessive","offensive","outrage","paranoid","psychotic","publish","social-media","speech-codes","stutter","time-jump","time-travelling","twitter","universe","unstable","virtue-signal","virtue-signalling"],"id":179572,"author_id":"Geoffrey+Miller"},{"text":"Everything we're doing is freakin' iffy. That's what makes it so much fun.","author":"John Sandford","tags":["chances","fun","havoc","iffy","john-sandford","mgg","michele-cook","outrage","the-singular-menace"],"id":185969,"author_id":"John+Sandford"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":22,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}