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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.

  • Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.

    "Why Marx Was Right". Book by Terry Eagleton, 2011.
  • Either there is marriage as it is now defined and as defined by the Lord, or there is what could thus be described as genderless marriage. The latter is abhorrent to God, who, as we've been discussing, Himself described what marriage is - between a man and a woman.

    Men   Abhorrent   Lord  
    Source: www.mormonnewsroom.org
  • Individual web pages as they first appeared in the early 1990s had the flavour of person-hood. MySpace preserved some of that flavour, though a process of regularized formatting had begun. Facebook went further, organizing people into multiple-choice identities while Wikipedia seeks to erase point of view entirely. If a church or government were doing these things, it would feel authoritarian, but when technologists are the culprits, we seem hip, fresh, and inventive. People accept ideas presented in technological form that would be abhorrent in any other forms

  • 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.

    Men   Fellow Man   Flesh  
    Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2011). “Why We Can't Wait”, p.113, Beacon Press
  • Tyranny is abhorrent, freedom benefits all, whereas violence benefits no one for long.

    Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.90, Rowman & Littlefield
  • We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe

    Clifford D. Simak (2015). “A Heritage of Stars”, p.95, Open Road Media
  • 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.

    Rights   Iran   Practice  
  • 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 (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.10, 谷月社
  • There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

    Letter to Augusta Gregory on November 22, 1902. "James Joyce". Book by Richard Ellmann, 1959.
  • There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

    Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.223, Regent College Publishing
  • The great masses of men, though theoretically free, are seen to submit supinely to oppression and exploitation of a hundred abhorrent sorts. Have they no means of resistance? Obviously they have. The worst tyrant, even under democratic plutocracy, has but one throat to slit. The moment the majority decided to overthrow him he would be overthrown. But the majority lacks the resolution; it cannot imagine taking the risks.

    Mean   Men   Tyrants  
    H.L. Mencken (2013). “Notes On Democracy”, p.41, Knopf
  • Let me be clear: I support the Civil Rights Act because I overwhelmingly agree with the intent of the legislation, which was to stop discrimination in the public sphere and halt the abhorrent practice of segregation and Jim Crow laws.

    "Rand Paul attempts to clarify" by Steve Benen, washingtonmonthly.com. May 20, 2010.
  • I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.

  • I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.

    Ambition   Men   Together  
    Francesco Guicciardini (1949). “Ricordi”
  • That is the great distinction between the sexes. Men see objects, women seetherelationship between objects? It is an extra dimension of feeling which we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women?and absurd.

    Sex   Real   War  
    1965 The Magus, ch.52.
  • 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.

    Passion   Men   Self  
    William Booth (1890). “In Darkest England, and the Way Out”, Bryce
  • A long long time ago I took an oath to tell all secrets that came my way. Don't tell me a secret, I won't keep it. I'm against secrets, I'm against hierarchies, lineages, all assumption of special knowledge on the part of anyone in the presence of anyone else is abhorrent to me. I mean, I am a true anarchist first and foremost.

    Mean   Long   Secret  
  • Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

  • The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

    Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.2344, Delphi Classics
  • He had escaped the abhorrent taint! He was truly completely alone! He was the only human being in the world!

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

    Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.434, Princeton University Press
  • We don't have an appreciable American left any more in the United States. What I saw of the SDS in the '60s was very abhorrent to me: Marxism, Leninism, almost the KGB mentality - a police politics that I found completely totalitarian in nature.

    Kgb   Police   Saws  
    Source: reason.com
  • 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.

  • Can anything be imagined more abhorrent to every sentiment of generosity and justice, than the law which arms the rich with the legal right to fix, by assize, the wages of the poor? If this is not slavery, we have forgotten its definition. Strike the right of associating for the sale of labor from the privileges of a freeman, and you may as well bind him to a master, or ascribe him to the soil.

  • The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.

  • 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.

    "Poulos v. New Hampshire, 345 U.S. 395". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 27, 1953.
  • In a free society we will tolerate boorish people, who have abhorrent behavior, but if we're civilized people we publicly criticize that and don't belong to those groups or associate with those people.

    "Rand Paul on Civil Rights: Private Restaurants Wouldn’t Have To Serve Martin Luther King" by Taylor Marsh, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 19, 2010.
  • I do not believe that loyalty should demand defending behavior that I find abhorrent.

  • Communism requires of its adherents that they arise early and participate in a strenuous round of calisthenics. To someone who wishes that cigarettes came already lit the thought of such exertion at an hour when decent people are just nodding off is thoroughly abhorrent.

    People   Wish   Abhorrent  
    Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.48, Vintage
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