NVC suggests behind every action, however ineffective, tragic, violent, or abhorrent to us, is an attempt to meet a need. — Marshall B. Rosenberg 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
There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“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
It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it. — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness. — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Fuzzy thinking is, after all, just one step above not thinking at all. But to take the ideas of serious transformational thinkers… — Marianne Williamson 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
Your theory of partial immortality is abhorrent to me. I would rather disbelieve in the immortality of my own soul than suppose… — Fanny Kemble 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla's… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Even if torture works, it cannot be tolerated -- not in one case or a thousand or a million. If their efficacy… — John Kiriakou 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
Crime is based upon need, making money. People sell drugs to make money. But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell… — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
I have long been convinced that the idea of liberty is abhorrent to most human beings. What they want is security, not… — H. L. Mencken 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
The entire Jesus concept, that human sacrifice should be the substratum of a moral religion of love, strikes me as incongruous. God… — Trevor Treharne Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll 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
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
We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. — Wendell Pierce Copy Share Image
It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character. — Albert Einstein 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
“The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.” — Stifyn Emrys Copy Share Image
Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long. — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world! — Patrick Süskind 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 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
