Quote by Winifred Gallagher

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

— Steven Pinker

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

— Martha Nussbaum

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

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Desire is not always lessened by disgust. Nor can it be bestowed, like favor, to those most deserving of it”

— Cassandra Clare

“In every known culture, humans experience joy, sadness, disgust, anger, fear, and surprise. In every known culture, these emotions are indicated by the same…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust...

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

— Jim Rohn

“An emotion is your brain’s creation of what your bodily sensations mean, in relation to what is going on around you in the world.”

— Lisa Feldman Barrett

“As Adam Smith put it centuries ago: “the emotion which we feel for the misery of others… is by no means confined to the…

— Adam M. Grant

“According to the “universality studies” conducted by psychologists Paul Ekman, Carroll Izard, and Friesen (1969-1972), the words Happiness. Fear. Anger. Sadness. Contempt. Surprise. Disgust.…

— Susan C. Young

“Emotion has the power to obscure and falsify knowledge: that the whole world assumes a smiling aspect when we have reason to rejoice, and…

— Irvin D. Yalom

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

— Sophocles