Abomination Quotes
54 quotes by 50 authors
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I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
— Jorge Luis Borges
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War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring…
— Judith Hand
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Children, after being limbs of Satan in traditional theology and mystically illuminated angels in the minds of educational reformers, have reverted to being little devils;…
— Bertrand Russell
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[I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an…
— Barack Obama
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Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of…
— Oscar Romero
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A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter…
— Alexander Cockburn
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It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.
— Marlon Riggs
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Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.
— Horace Kephart
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In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,…
— Joseph Conrad
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I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly…
— Dwight L. Moody
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It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.
— Mark Foley
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Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.
— Plato
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But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example…
— Athenagoras of Athens
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Remote villages and communities have lost their identity, and their peace and charm have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.
— James Norman Hall
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If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there…
— Harriet Ann Jacobs
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It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and…
— Ronald J. Sider
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The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine that they limit…
— George F. Richards
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The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride,…
— John of Kronstadt
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