Quotes of: Abhorrence Keyword

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

Edward Heath

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

Amy Adams

The most dangerous aspect of religion is its tendency to glorify the absurd and justify the abhorrent.

Stifyn Emrys

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

Wendell Pierce

I find it abhorrent to see a whale being slaughtered and do nothing but bear witness.

Paul Watson

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

Edgar Allan Poe

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

Tony Blair

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

Complete Quotes of Albert Einstein

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

John Sergeant Wise

I don't even want to be on Twitter. I think it's abhorrent, people sending messages to say they're doing the washing-up or whatever.

Shirley Eaton

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

James Joyce

The real abhorrent consequence of the invention of atomic bombs is the fact that we still have them and they're spreading.

Barry Commoner

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

Thomas Jefferson

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

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

He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer

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

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

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

I said I thought female labour of the sort exacted from these slaves, and corporal chastisement such as they endure, must be abhorrent to any manly or humane man.

Fanny Kemble

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