Disgust is a very powerful tool for bringing about crowd violence. If a group can be dehumanized and made into the Other,… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“At the first time, I do my best to try again against the inevitable tragedy. In the second time, I become disgusted… — Fredrica Bernkastel Copy Share Image
Her last conscious thought was disgust at life; her senses had lied to her. The world was not made of energy and… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
The irrationality of disgust suggests it is unreliable as a source of moral insight. There may be good arguments against gay marriage,… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“When I saw several thugs attack a lone man, or a larger man a small one, or even when a mastiff attacked… — Ernst Jünger Copy Share Image
The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“Charity, till then, had been conscious only of a vague self-disgust and a frightening physical distress; now, of a sudden, there came… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Everything failed to subdue me. Soon everything seemed dull: another sunrise, the lives of heroes, falling in love, war, the discoveries people… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“You know how old people lose all shame about eating, and it makes you puke to watch them? Old junkies are the… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Because of the size of this body, I must concentrate much harder than I usually do. Even the small things -- my… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“Please," she eventually said, "you must forgive me. I'm far too shy. I must work harder to overcome it. When I behave… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“Some patients who are profoundly multiply disabled are incontinent, smear faeces, cut themselves, dribble, smell, spit, bite, eat mucous, pull their hair,… — Ved P. Varma Copy Share Image
“Cam has done what I've been trying to do for a year. He woke you up." Cam pulled back, smirking at her.… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
I spent the morning smashing fliesI killed one fly against the doorjamb. Another I stalked into the kitchen...A third fly wavered by… — Bonnie Friedman Copy Share Image
I have all the characteristics of a human being: blood, flesh, skin, hair; but not a single, clear, identifiable emotion, except for… — Rafael Sandoval Copy Share Image
“Disgust’ is a modern concept: only when food is relatively abundant can people afford to overlook certain forms of nutrition on the… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
“Hence while disgust is always disgust toward, in the same way that envy is envy of—whereas it makes no sense to speak… — Sianne Ngai Copy Share Image
I have neither curiosity, interest, pain nor pleasure, in anything, good or evil, they can say of me. I feel only a… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I feel like one thing that messed me up was living in a homophobic and transphobic society, and just being the object… — Ezra Furman Copy Share Image
There will be outrage and disgust and people will turn on me at the last, they will hate me, my reputation will… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I wasn’t sure what expression I was expecting her to wear when she saw that it was me. I’d braced myself for… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
“Caenis surveyed the celebrating crowd with naked disgust. Vaelin couldn’t hear the word he mouthed but the shape of his lips carried… — Anthony Ryan Copy Share Image
If we have to get married and have a million babies, I hope our relationship will be built on mutual disgust and… — Michael Buckley Copy Share Image
True partisans draft legislation that gives themselves everything and their enemies nothing. They love bills that repulse and even disgust the other… — Jim Cooper Copy Share Image
In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
The aim of education is to make the pupil like and dislike what he ought…The little human animal will not at first… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“the disgust that exists indelibly between men and women and that you are always trying to purge with what you call frankness.… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
I think there's such disgust and frustration because of Trump that people see me as the vessel for that frustration. They see… — Ana Navarro Copy Share Image
“We cannot shrink in disgust from our neighbour's touch because his hands, that are clean now, were once dirty. We must cultivate,… — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
My mom grew up in extreme poverty, and always spoke of it with a look of disgust. She felt pressured to fit… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. Once we really get the full… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust,… — Saadi Copy Share Image
Attainment is followed by neglect, possession by disgust, and the malicious remark of the Greek epigrammatist on marriage may be applied to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Bitterness, principle of your determination, your mode of action, and understanding, is the one fixed point in your oscillation between disgust for… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“France? Eugh. It’s so…full of the French,” she said. “I can’t stand it. The language, the culture, the wine, the food. All… — Debbie McGowan Copy Share Image
Affliction hardens and discourages us because, like a red hot iron, it stamps the soul to its very depths with the scorn,… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
According to my mother, there pretty much wasn't anything I wouldn't eat as a child… I was even inclined to dig into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
