“Simplicity was abhorrent to his lordship; he revelled in a net-work of intrigue; he loved to accomplish the impossible.” — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Washington's incredible wastefulness of tax dollars is abhorrent to any sense of fairness or rational thinking. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
“Strange isn't it? How it's the direction we are viewed from that makes us attractive or abhorrent.” — Galen Beckett Copy Share Image
I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent. — George Stephanopoulos Copy Share Image
I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands. — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading. — Barry Commoner Copy Share Image
I've never seen anything so abhorrent in my life as Harry Reid. He's an equal opportunity basher. He goes after everybody, and… — Dana Perino Copy Share Image
That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I guess there's nothing I don't like about Merlin, in this presentation. I love everything, even the things I find despicable and… — Joseph Fiennes Copy Share Image
Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself… — August Sander Copy Share Image
No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper,… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well… — Francesco Guicciardini Copy Share Image
The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Slavery was, in a very real sense, the first international human rights issue to come to the fore. It led to the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
While the behavior of the Russian government, Putin and Putin punks are abhorrent, nothing will be changed by boycotting the Sochi Winter… — David Mixner Copy Share Image
The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither… — William J. Brennan Copy Share Image
Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour,… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
With faith in the merciful Redeemer and His power, potential despair turns to hope. One's very heart and desires change, and the… — D. Todd Christofferson Copy Share Image
As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people… — Mark Zuckerberg Copy Share Image
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
We don't have an appreciable American left any more in the United States. What I saw of the SDS in the '60s… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be… — Fanny Kemble Copy Share Image
The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
We have an interest in combating tactics in war that are abhorrent and that only fuel terrorism because they incite people on… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
Any abhorrent behavior is more interesting to me. I'm always amazed when somebody asks me, 'Why don't you write something about nice… — Terence Winter Copy Share Image
There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by… — William Booth Copy Share Image
In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that… — Rand Paul Copy Share Image
Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Our greatest pleasure, surely, is in fragments, just as we derive the most pleasure from life if we regard it as a… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did… — Oscar Romero Copy Share Image
