Abominable Quotes
75 quotes by 65 authors
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I believe the Abominable Snowman may be real. I think there may be something in that.
— David Attenborough
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The devil sees nothing more abominable than a truly humble christian, for [that Christian] is just the opposite of [the devil's] own image
— Hans Nielsen Hauge
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The newspapers! Sir, they are the most villainous - licentious -abominable - infernal - Not that I ever read them - No - I make…
— Richard Brinsley Sheridan
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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
— Immanuel Kant
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How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.
— Albert Einstein
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... we must drive them [Jews] out like mad dogs, so that we do not become partakers of their abominable blasphemy and all the their…
— Martin Luther
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Not by accident, you may be sure, do the Christian Scriptures make the father of knowledge a serpent - slimy, sneaking and abominable.
— H. L. Mencken
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Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to…
— Susan Sontag
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Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion,…
— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The genius of capitalism consists precisely in its lack of morality. Unless he is rich enough to hire his own choir, a capitalist is a…
— Lewis H. Lapham
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And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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And the angel spake unto me, saying: Behold the gold, and the silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the…
— Joseph Smith, Jr.
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War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business.…
— Albert Einstein
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Snow in April is abominable," said Anne. "Like a slap in the face when you expect a kiss.
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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If one accepts the 24th and 104th Psalms as scriptural norms, then surface mining and other forms of earth destruction are perversions. If we take…
— Wendell Berry
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
— Andre Gide
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Every answer he [President John Adams] gives to his addressers unmasks more and more his principles and views. His language to the young men at…
— James Madison
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The customs of the Jews are base and abominable and owe their persistence to their depravity. Jews are extremely loyal to one another, always ready…
— Tacitus
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It was with horror that I learned of the abominable terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington…
— Gerhard Schroder
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Dictatorships foster oppression, dictatorships foster servitude, dictatorships foster cruelty; more abominable is the fact that they foster idiocy.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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