Abhorrent Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue…
— William Booth
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one…
— Francesco Guicciardini
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We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.
— Wendell Pierce
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That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men…
— John Fowles
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The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
— Thomas Jefferson
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There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.
— James Joyce
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If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere "smartness,"…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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I have no fear of God, and yet fear keeps me awake at night,fear of the devil. And if I believe in the devil, I…
— Anais Nin
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Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process…
— Jaron Lanier
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He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!
— Patrick Süskind
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It moves one's heart to think: Nine months before I was born there was a woman who loved me deeply. She did not know what…
— Oscar Romero
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The only way we can challenge Islamism is to engage with one another. We need to make it as abhorrent as racism has become today.…
— Maajid Nawaz
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I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.
— Paul Watson
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I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any…
— Fanny Kemble
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The most obvious and condescending tell-tale sign that manipulation is taking place is that no one takes responsibility for the actions of the administration, its…
— Teresa Stover
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