Abhorrent Quotes

• It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character.

  Albert Einstein

  Memorable, Character, Fine

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press

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• In my mind nothing is more abhorrent than a life of ease. None of us has any right to ease. There is no place in civilization for the idler.

  Henry Ford

  Civilization, Mind, Idlers

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.10, 谷月社

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• Crime is based upon need, making money.  People sell drugs to make money.  But if everybody is cared for, they don't sell drugs and if there's no money you can't sell drugs even if you wanted to.  There'd be no such thing as gambling, prostitution, or selling out, or paying off a senator or a governor.  There are no senators, there are no governors so you can't pay them off.  If you take away the basis or the condition that generate abhorrent behavior, you don't have abhorrent behavior.

  Jacque Fresco

  Money, Caring, Gambling

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• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterably dishonest that theft is to them a master passion.

  William Booth

  Passion, Men, Lazy

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• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer.

  Wendell Pierce

  Mad, Trying, Answers

  "Exclusive: Wendell Pierce Discusses His Controversial Role in ‘Four’ (LAFF Premiere Today)". Interview with Jasmin Tiggett, www.indiewire.com. June 15, 2012.

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• Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perspective, Mind, Endurance

  Letter to John Adams, 1 August (1816)

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• The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Views, Voice, Political

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• There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Agreement, World, Finding Myself

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.223, Regent College Publishing

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• I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

  Tony Blair

  Hands, Survival, Hussein

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• Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience.
  And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Men, Fellow Man, Flesh

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.113, Beacon Press

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• Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.

  James Coburn

  Two, Voice, Long

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Let me go to Clinton's new proposal: to have uniforms in public schools. And people are doing that. How come they're doing that? Dress codes! I find that abhorrent.

  Russell Means

  School, People, Dresses

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• Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

  Winston Churchill

  Civilization, Political, Democracy

  Winston Churchill (1952). “The Second World War”

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• Personally I have never found the practice of recreational drug use appealing. In fact, I have always found the lifestyle and the people who surround it to be abhorrent.

  Davey Havok

  Drug Use, Practice, People

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• Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Rights, Iran, Practice

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• There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

  James Joyce

  Philosophy, Religion, Atheism

  Letter to Augusta Gregory on November 22, 1902. "James Joyce". Book by Richard Ellmann, 1959.

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• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.

  William Booth

  Passion, Men, Self

  William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”, Bryce

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• The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American

  Theodore Roosevelt

  America, Earth

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour.

  Amy Adams

  Apology, Behaviour, Notes

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• In beloved Iraq, blood is flowing between brothers, in the shadow of an illegitimate foreign occupation, and abhorrent sectarianism threatens a civil war.

  Abdullah of Saudi Arabia

  Brother, War, Blood

  "Saudi: US Iraq presence illegal". news.bbc.co.uk. March 29, 2007.

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• The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here.

  John Fowles

  Comforting, News, Facts

  1974 The Ebony Tower,'Poor Koko'.

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• Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear all the greater because I could not analyse it, and seeming to concern a stealthily approaching menace; not death, but some nameless, unheard-of thing inexpressibly more ghastly and abhorrent.

  H. P. Lovecraft

  Rising, Consciousness, Fear Of The Unknown

  H. P. Lovecraft (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)”, p.187, Delphi Classics

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• We always see abhorrent behavior and say why, but then we get mad when somebody tries to answer. Just to answer the question why does not say I'm validating behavior. I'm just saying, if we're going to be a student of human behavior, be a true student.

  Wendell Pierce

  Mad, Trying, Doe

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

  George Stephanopoulos

  Loyalty, Believe, Demand

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• No matter what the legislature may say, a man has the right to make his speech, print his handbill, compose his newspaper, and deliver his sermon without asking anyone's permission. The contrary suggestion is abhorrent to our traditions.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Suggestions, Asking

  "Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 27, 1953.

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