Disgust Quote by Steven Pinker

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

— Martha Nussbaum

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

— Sophocles

Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure.

— Petrarch

If you don't like bacteria, you're on the wrong planet.

— Stewart Brand

“If I went to a library and lobbed a microbiology textbook out the window, I could easily concuss a passer-by. If I tore out…

— Ed Yong

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

— Jim Rohn

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

— George Orwell

Nothing human disgusts me unless it's unkind.

— Tennessee Williams

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed…

— George Bernard Shaw

D'you know how embarrassing it is to mention good and evil in a scientific laboratory? Have you any idea? One of the reasons I…

— Philip Pullman

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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