Repugnant Quotes

63 Repugnant quotes by 55 unique authors

Usually, if we hate, it is the shadow of the person that we hate, rather than the substance. We may hate a person because he… — Sydney J. Harris
To allow same-sex couples to adopt children and then to label their families as second-class because the adoptive parents are of the same sex is… — Stephen Reinhardt
Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that… — Khalil Gibran
The idea that we have the right to inflict suffering and death on other sentient beings for the trivial reasons of palate pleasure and fashion… — Gary L. Francione
...it is not only the general principles of justice that are infringed, or at least set aside, by the exclusion of women, merely as women,… — John Stuart Mill
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary. — Unknown Author
Life expects of you duties which appear repugnant to you. You must now know that the most important thing is not duties but what permits you to… — Stig Dagerman
There is a happiness in Deism, when rightly understood, that is not to be found inany other system of religion. All other systems have something… — Thomas Paine
But you answer, that the Constitution recognizes property in slaves. It would be sufficient, then, to reply, that this constitutional recognition must be void, because… — William H. Seward
It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate. — Alain Resnais
A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. — Zeno of Citium
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my… — Harriet Martineau
The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how… — George Carlin
Judging from the ugly and repugnant things that are sometimes in vogue, it would seem as though fashion were desirous of exhibiting its power by… — Georg Simmel
The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler. — Tom Lantos
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant. — Carol Anshaw
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties… — Thomas Paine
Being inclusive sometimes means being kind toward people whose views are repugnant. But you should only do so if it is physically and emotionally safe… — Amy Dickinson
The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies,… — John F. Kennedy
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. — Jon Meacham
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left. — John Podhoretz
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. — Julia Roberts
You should protest about the views of people you disagree with over major moral issues, and argue them down, but you should not try to… — Julian Baggini
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine

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