Abhorrence Quotes

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  I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

  Frederick Douglass

  Respect, Fear, Integrity

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave”, p.54, Simon and Schuster

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• Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence.

  John Adams

  Practice, United States, Slavery

  John Adams, Carolyn P. Yoder (2007). “John Adams, the writer: a treasury of letters, diaries, and public documents”, Calkins Creek Books

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• Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

  Edward Heath

  Attitude, Moral, Apartheid

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• The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

  Bergen Evans

  Vices, Virtue, Mere

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• I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Literature, Danger, Terror

  Edgar Allan Poe (2008). “Edgar Allan Poe's Annotated Short Stories”, p.161, Bottletree Books LLC

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• Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them.

  Joseph Rotblat

  Strong, Race, Long

  Joseph Rotblat, Ikeda Daisaku (2006). “A Quest for Global Peace: Rotblat and Ikeda on War, Ethics and the Nuclear Threat”, p.117, I.B.Tauris

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• Failing to induce adulation and submissiveness, the Angkar could only generate hatred. If concealment was the ultimate ploy for the leadership, it backfired and whipped up abhorrence in the
  context of total revolution. This might be one of the explanations why repression assumed proportions unknown in other Communist countries. The mask of Angkar was a good tactic to grab
  power, but it proved disastrous in government.

  Pol Pot

  Country, Government, Hatred

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• The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice.

  William Shakespeare

  Sacrifice, Hot, Deaf

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.216, Cambridge University Press

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• The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

  Beryl Markham

  Loneliness, Natural, Deck Of Cards

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Love Is

  William Shakespeare (1872). “The Works of William Shakespeare: The Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions”, p.25

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• Abhor all idea of being saved by good works, but O, be as full of good works as if you were to be saved by them!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Ideas, Good Work, Saved

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1871). “Sermons of the Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, of London”, p.197

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• It seems to me impossible for a civilized man to love or worship, or respect the God of the Old Testament. A really civilized man, a really civilized woman, must hold such a God in abhorrence and contempt.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  God, Religious, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.902, Library of Alexandria

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• The nations, and the sects, of the Roman world, admitted with equal credulity, and similar abhorrence, the reality of that infernal art [witchcraft], which was able to control the eternal order of the planets, and the voluntary operations of the human mind. . . . They believed, with the wildest inconsistency, that this preternatural dominion of the air, of earth, and of hell, was exercised, from the vilest motives of malice or gain, by some wrinkled hags and itinerant sorcerers, who passed their obscure lives in penury and contempt.

  Edward Gibbon

  Art, Reality, Air

  Edward Gibbon (1821). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.253

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• Children should from the beginning be bred up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting any living creature; and be taught not to spoil or destroy any thing, unless it be for the preservation or advantage of some other that is nobler.

  John Locke

  Children, Taught, Killing

  John Locke (1727). “The works of John Locke ...”, p.53

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• The tendency to cruelty
  should be watched in
  children and if they
  incline to any such
  cruelty, they should be
  taught the contrary
  usage. For the custom
  of tormenting and killing
  other animals will, by
  degrees, harden their
  hearts even toward man.
  Children should from
  the beginning, be
  brought up in an
  abhorrence of killing or
  tormenting living
  beings.

  John Locke

  Children, Heart, Animal

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• A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger.

  Rene Descartes

  Passion, Love Is, Two

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• Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Church, Entering, Crosses

  Nadine Gordimer (2011). “Telling Times: Writing and Living, 1950-2008”, p.425, A&C Black

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• We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery.

  Patrick Henry

  Slavery, Should, Transmit

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• You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself. You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself. The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. If it were otherwise, men would never have bothered to make an alphabet, nor to have fashioned words out of what were only animal sounds, nor to have crossed continents - each man to see what the other looked like.

  Beryl Markham

  Dog, Loneliness, Book

  Beryl Markham (2015). “West With The Night”, p.182, Hachette UK

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• I feel overawed by quantity where counting no longer makes sense. By unrepeatability within such a quantity. By creatures of nature gathered in herds, droves, species, in which each individual, while subservient to the mass, retains some distinguishing features. A crowd of people, birds, insects, or leaves is a mysterious assemblage of variants of certain prototype. A riddle of nature's abhorrence of exact repetition or inability to produce it. Just as the human hand cannot repeat its own gesture, I invoke this disturbing law, switching my own immobile herds into that rhythm.

  Magdalena Abakanowicz

  Hands, Law, People

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• It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives.

  John Adams

  Children, Ambition, Compassion

  John Adams (2003). “The Letters of John and Abigail Adams”, p.74, Penguin

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• The chaste severity of the fathers in whatever related to the commerce of the two sexes flowed from the same principle -- their abhorrence of every enjoyment which might gratify the sensual and degrade the spiritual nature of man. It was their favourite opinion, that if Adam had preserved his obedience to the Creator, he would have lived for ever in a state of virgin purity, and that some harmless mode of vegetation might have peopled paradise with a race of innocent and immortal beings.

  Edward Gibbon

  Spiritual, Sex, Father

  Edward Gibbon (2015). “History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire V1: the History Focus”, p.350, 谷月社

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• It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Fear, Atheism, Reform

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.81, Courier Corporation

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• Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general.

  Hal Duncan

  Christian, Prejudice, Abjection

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• One thing I do find in the "lost" generation or something is a kind of abhorrence of history, you know, like it's boring, dumb, or just not interesting. I think it's terribly interesting if you can get your head around how it relates to where you're standing right here and now.

  Ani DiFranco

  Thinking, Interesting, Dumb

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview by Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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