Appropriate Quote by Jenny Holzer

Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.

— Martha Nussbaum

“Today we recognize that the emotion of disgust evolved as an unconscious defense against biological contamination.”

— Steven Pinker

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

— Sophocles

“We must not allow embarrassment to distract attention from elements that make us uncomfortable. Disgust and dread are the sorts of feelings we frequently…

— Lawrence Kushner

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky

Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.

— Jim Rohn

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

— Tennessee Williams

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

I disgust myself but I am not unhappy about that.

— Hank Moody

There are some persons who only disgust with their abilities, there are persons who please even with their faults.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“this observation leads Rozin to a stunning conclusion: "Disgust is the basic emotion of civilization.”

— Winifred Gallagher

“Hence while disgust is always disgust toward, in the same way that envy is envy of—whereas it makes no sense to speak of stuplimity…

— Sianne Ngai