Odious Quotes

79 quotes by 70 authors

It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to… — Russell Baker
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. — Honore de Balzac
I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by men who were inspired. I study the Bible daily. Opposition… — Isaac Newton
The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you,… — Abraham Lincoln
There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't… — Mario Savio
Look round this universe. What an immense profusion of beings, animated and organized, sensible and active! You admire this prodigious variety and fecundity. But inspect… — David Hume
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow,… — Charles Lamb
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. — Mark Twain
I have been long sensible that while I was endeavoring to render our country the greatest of all services, that of regenerating the public education,… — Thomas Jefferson
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. — William E. Gladstone
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious. — Margaret George
We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are -… — Barack Obama
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such… — Edward Abbey
It is not a charity but a right, not bounty but justice, that I am pleading for. The present state of civilization is as odious… — Thomas Paine
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely… — Antonio Gramsci
What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . . — Marsilio Ficino
To the Jews, Rome constituted the quintessence of all that was odious and should be swept away from off the face of the earth. They… — Joseph Kastein
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. — Benjamin Franklin
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. — Isaac Newton
One is not superior merely because one sees the world as odious. — FranÃ§ois-RenÃ© de Chateaubriand

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