Repugnant Quotes

A bad feeling is a commotion of the mind repugnant to reason, and against nature. — Zeno Of Citium

Morally repugnant and tactically stupid are a lousy combination. — Richard North Patterson

You are a door to an existence she does not desire, but even if the room beyond is repugnant, that door has won a portion of her affection. — Mohsin Hamid

The constitution controls any legislative act repugnant to it. — John Marshall

Status based on wealth is an old-fashioned idea; I find it repugnant, actually. — Ian Schrager

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

[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

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

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

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

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler. — Tom Lantos