Abhorrent Quotes

Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.

There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

The challenge is to lend conviction even to the voices which advocate views I find personally abhorrent, whether they are political Islamists or officers justifying a coup.

I may find Saddam Hussein's regime abhorrent - any normal person would - but the survival of it is in his hands.