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Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination.
— Richard North Patterson
The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it.
— John Marshall
Oh, I know it today: nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself! Nevertheless,
— Hermann Hesse
He was a dastardly fellow," the beer mug continued happily. "Truly repugnant. And smelled! Oh, lad, the stench could knock over an ox!
— M.L. LeGette
The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society.
— John F. Kennedy
nothing in the world is more repugnant to a man than following the path that leads him to himself!
— Hermann Hesse
Misty dreamers had not a chance with her; since, though she did not talk - talking would have been altogether repugnant to her silent nature.
— E.T.A. Hoffmann
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath.
— R.C. Sproul
There is no theory of a God, of an author of Nature, of an origin of the Universe, which is not utterly repugnant to my faculties ...
— Harriet Martineau
We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Underwater madness slipping into a haze, drowning and choking in repugnant nostalgic thoughts.
— Karen Quan
Nothing is more repugnant to the human mind in an age of equality than the idea of subjection to forms.
— Alexis De Tocqueville
A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged.
— Nelson Mandela
A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable.
— Taylor Caldwell
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another.
— Milan Kundera
In the '90s, there was a big bell-bottom craze. Everyone was wearing grungy bell-bottoms. It was so repugnant to me.
— Justin Theroux
Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.
— John Podhoretz
The line we draw between animals that are socially acceptable and those we find repugnant can be awfully arbitrary.
— Alexandra Harney
![Repugnant Quotes By Roland Barthes: [T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.](https://www.wisefamousquotes.com/images/repugnant-quotes-by-roland-barthes-1922064.jpg "Repugnant Quotes By Roland Barthes: [T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.")
[T]he most repugnant bastard there is: the bastard-octopus.
— Roland Barthes
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him.
— William Minto
Philosophically, the notion of a beginning of the present order of Nature is repugnant to me ... I should like to find a genuine loophole.
— Arthur Eddington
Repugnant is a creature who would squander the ability To lift an eye to heaven, conscious of his fleeting time here — Maynard James Keenan
Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure.
— Aleister Crowley
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion.
— Mahatma Gandhi
When I started, there was more of a cultural assumption that many readers would find gay characters irrelevant or repugnant.
— Carol Anshaw
I think social and moral disengagement is repugnant.
— Douglas Coupland
Arminian notion of Liberty of the Will, consisting in the will's Self-determination, is repugnant to itself, and shuts itself wholly out of the world.
— Jonathan Edwards
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections.
— Antonio Lobo Antunes
I got through college realizing business was repugnant.
— Bruce McCulloch
O.K., helplessness is repugnant to me, as a father, as a piece of protoplasm. My parents were activists. I don't believe you can't do anything.
— Marshall Brickman
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses.
— Galileo Galilei
It was repugnant, but it was the only way to communicate.
— Alain Resnais
Things are often exactly what they seem---horrifying or distasteful, even repugnant and disgusting.
— Norman Giddan
I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating ... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
— Fidel Castro
Things are not more or less perfect, according as they delight or offend human senses, or according as they are serviceable or repugnant to mankind.
— Baruch Spinoza
The Universe keeps track of our sins and exacts devious and repugnant punishments, like dates with unknown men.
— Sue Grafton
Freedom of expression truly exists only when a society's most repugnant nitwits are allowed to spew their nonsense in public.
— Sarah Vowell
