Revolted Quotes

28 quotes by 26 authors

Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it,… — Leo Tolstoy
Our only competition in the theater is boredom, because if I'm bored with a play, if I'm revolted by a play on stage, with the… — Jerome Lawrence
Iâ€™m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, Iâ€™ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I do… — Geoff Dyer
Influence people think about it as someone you like but influence is also what you're revolted by. In fact, often it's what you're running away… — Marc Ribot
Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they… — Alice von Hildebrand
The smell of death overwhelmed us even before we passed through the stockade. More than 3200 naked, emaciated bodies had been flung into shallow graves.… — Omar N. Bradley
I take it to be axiomatic that people are revolted by witnessing the shameless gratification of an appetite they do not share — Quentin Crisp
The soul that is yielded to Christ becomes His own fortress, which He holds in a revolted world, and He intends that no authority shall… — Ellen G. White
I was born in Paris in 1950. I had a strict upper-class Catholic education but I never really fitted in the system and revolted against… — Francois Gautier
...[Changers] were a threat to identity, a challenge to the individualism even of those they were never likely to impersonate. It had nothing to do… — Iain Banks
One of the big mistakes Republicans made with the Contract with America is that they tried to do too much too fast, and people revolted… — Dick Gephardt
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel. — Ellen Glasgow
But in my own particular case, there was something that happened when I became a mother. Whenever in the news I saw an example of… — Mercedes Ruehl
As liberty and intelligence have increased the people have more and more revolted against the theological dogmas that contradict common sense and wound the tenderest… — Catharine Beecher
Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves. — William Shakespeare
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp, by the… — Milton Friedman
I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour. — Ben Kingsley
What do we want to be prefects for?â€ said George, looking revolted at the very idea. â€œItâ€™d take all the fun out of life. — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
So many things which once had distressed or revolted him â€” the speeches and pronouncements of the learned, their assertions and their prohibitions, their refusal… — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Now I see -- we are always most revolted by the things hidden within us. — David Henry Hwang

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