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
Plunder, ravage and kill; the secret works of the repugnant. Since the fall of man and brother killing brother, evil has owned the night. — Dennis F. Larsen
Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion. — Mahatma Gandhi
In the fullness of time, I suspect that bigotry against homosexuals will seem as repugnant as racial prejudice does today. Or so one hopes. — Jon Meacham
Republican comes in the dictionary just after reptile and just above repugnant. — Julia Roberts
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
Keep on acquiring a taste for what is naturally repugnant; this is an unfailing source of pleasure. — Aleister Crowley
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
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
The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler. — Tom Lantos
They who depend upon manifest observations will philosophize better than those who persist in opinions repugnant to the senses. — Galileo Galilei
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
Nothing is more repugnant to me than brotherly feelings grounded in the common baseness people see in one another. — Milan Kundera
There's probably no concept in theology more repugnant to modern America than the idea of divine wrath. — R.C. Sproul
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.](http://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
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
An attitude of philosophic doubt, of suspended judgment, is repugnant to the natural man. Belief is an independent joy to him. — William Minto
A statement that is repugnant to one's beliefs can be as true as one that is pleasurable. — Taylor Caldwell
We are alien to each other, and their virtues are even more repugnant to my taste than their falsehoods and false dice. — Friedrich Nietzsche
