Disgust Quote by Jonathan Haidt

“Disgust’ is a modern concept: only when food is relatively abundant can people afford to overlook certain forms of nutrition on the grounds of…

— Lucy Worsley

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

— Martha Nussbaum

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

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

— Sophocles

Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“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

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Taste is first and foremost distaste, disgust and visceral intolerance of the taste of others.”

— Pierre Bourdieu

It is curious how there seems to be an instinctive disgust in Man for his nearest ancestors and relations. If only Darwin could conscientiously…

— Havelock Ellis

Ironically, the utterly unselective omnivore -- "I'm easy; I'll eat anything" -- can appear more socially sensitive than the individual who tries to eat…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“...we eat not so much for pleasure as we do to ward off an awful feeling...The fear of hunger is deeply rooted, and food…

— Michael Moss

Animals' taste systems are specialized for the niche they occupy in the environment. That includes us. As hunters and foragers of the dry savannah,…

— Mary Roach