Abomination Quote by Joseph Conrad

“The fascination of the abomination—you know.”

— Joseph Conrad

He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon…

— Joseph Conrad

In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the…

— Joseph Conrad

I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.

— Jorge Luis Borges

A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose…

— Alexander Cockburn

“Latin is an abomination!”

— Lew Wallace

The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine that they…

— George F. Richards

Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness…

— Jasper Fforde

The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in…

— Martin Luther

Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

— Woody Allen

The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is…

— Tennessee Celeste Claflin

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing…

— Peter Tosh