Character Quote by Jed Rubenfeld

Disgust is intuitive microbiology

— Steven Pinker

All is disgust when one leaves his own nature and does things that misfit it.

— Sophocles

Disgust and shame are inherently hierarchical; they set up ranks and orders of human beings. They are also inherently connected with restrictions on liberty…

— Martha Nussbaum

The moral sense is a natural faculty in us like the sense of smell or of touch.

— Peter Kropotkin

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

— Tennessee Williams

“Thus political orientation about social issues reflects sensitivity to visceral disgust and strategies for coping with such disgust.”

— Robert M. Sapolsky

A sense of shame is not a bad moral compass.

— Colin Powell

. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe…

— Immanuel Kant

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

— Emile M. Cioran

Disgust is expressed by violence, and it is to be noted of our intellectual temper that violence is a quality which is felt to…

— Lionel Trilling

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

— Petrarch

Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.

— Mario Vargas Llosa