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  • Slavery is an abomination and must be loudly proclaimed as such, but I own that I nor any other man has any immediate solution to the problem.

    Men   Slavery   Problem  
  • Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

    "Under a Thatched Roof".
  • It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even—in some cases—enough food to escape starvation.

    Ronald J. Sider (2015). “Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger: Moving from Affluence to Generosity”, p.94, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

    Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.22, eKitap Projesi
  • Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

    David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Renwick Gallery (1979). “The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright”, p.49, Courier Corporation
  • We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

    Strong   Powerful   Gun  
    FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Nov 10, 2011
  • I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...

    Men   New Day   Soldier  
    "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.
  • This is the Homosexuality Is An Abomination Club, right?

    John Green, David Levithan (2010). “Will Grayson, Will Grayson”, p.29, Penguin
  • To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

  • Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

    Law   Lobster   Done  
    Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated
  • It is a crime to put a Roman citizen in chains, it is an enormity to flog one, sheer murder to slay one: what, then, shall I say of crucifixion? It is impossible to find the word for such an abomination.

  • Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders. The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination. ...In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression.

    Brother   Names   Order  
  • But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  • A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

  • He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

    Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company
  • I'm almost violent about that stuff - electronic manipulation of pictures. I think it's an abomination. I reject it all. I mean, it's OK for selling corn flakes or automobiles or for taking pimples out of Elizabeth Taylor's face, but it undermines the thing that photography is about, which is about observation and not about manipulation of images.

  • The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

    Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.69
  • [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

  • I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

    Evil   Triumph   Down And  
    "Pat Robertson: Pray for justices to retire". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2003.
  • Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

    Mean   Sacrifice   Self  
  • I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand?

    Regret   Men   Long  
  • A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.

    Powerful   Past   Men  
    Source: www.msnbc.com
  • Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

    Fashion   Aunt   Ideas  
    "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.
  • The Devil endeavours by every means to keep men in error, in the enticement of the passions, in darkness of mind and heart; in pride, avarice, covetousness, envy, hatred, wicked impatience and irritation; in evil despondence, in the abominations of fornication, adultery, theft, false-witness, blasphemy, negligence, slothfulness, and sluggishness.

    Passion   Heart   Mean  
  • The efforts on the parts of Eastern magazine writers to educate the people of the United States, particularly parents, to the doctrine that they limit the number of their offspring to three or four children, and how this can be accomplished, is both pernicious and an abomination in the sight of the Lord; and it robs both man and his Maker of their glory and increase.

    Children   Men   Numbers  
  • But though such is our character (Oh. why should I speak of things unfit to be uttered?), the things said of us are an example of the proverb, 'The harlot reproves the chaste.' For those who have set up a market for fornication and established infamous resorts for the young for every kind of vile pleasure - who do not abstain even from males, males with males committing shocking abominations, outraging all the noblest and comeliest bodies in all sorts of ways, so dishonoring the fair workmanship of God.

  • The very first day that President [Barack] Obama was inaugurated, his first act as a president was to rescind that ban on third-trimester abortions. And he's even carried it further. Now, even if the baby is born alive, they have the right to kill that baby. It is an abomination.

    "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.
  • It does seem to me, though, that there is a difference between the Mormon Church saying, "We don't accept gay people within the Church; we don't accept gay marriage within the Church; we don't accept people who act on their homosexual desires within the Church;" and trying to interfere with what happens outside of the Church. That seemed to me to be an abomination.

    Source: andrewsolomon.com
  • "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"

    "Things Fall Apart". Book by Chinua Achebe (Chapter 15, p. 130), 1958.
  • A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

    War   Self   Deception  
    New Statesman and Society (Magazine), February 8, 1991.
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