Abhorrent quotes
28 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"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."
"It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character."
"I'd love to be a diva. But I'd then have to send so many apology notes for my abhorrent behaviour."
"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."
"The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American"
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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."
"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."
