Top 136 Abhor Quotes & Sayings

Regardless of Bobby's recent hate-filled rantings, which I abhor, he is nonetheless one of the greatest chessplayers of all time.

I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.

You must show the world that you abhor fighting.

I abhor vivisection with my whole soul. All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence.

These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome.

I abhor the rightwing Muslim ideology behind the veils, but I equally abhor the political rightwing xenophobes of Europe.

You must not think that a satiric style allows of scandalous and brutish words; the better sort abhor scurrility.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.

We love peace, as we abhor pusillanimity; but not peace at any price.

One of Dawkins' major gripes is against religion. I am in total agreement on that one. I abhor religion.

I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.

I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.

He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it.

I have huge sympathy for Prince William. He was born into a deeply unenviable life that most of us would abhor, and what's more, he lost his mother at an early age.

The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.

As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.

...for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore

I am an enemy to revolutions. I abhor, both from temper and from the clearest judgment I am able to form, all violent convulsions in the affairs of men.

I abhor war and view it as the greatest scourge of mankind.

I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to abhor, and I shall die abhorring.

Adore God, abhor sin.

I abhor hypocrisy.

The American people abhor a vacuum.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

We love and we value peace; we know its blessings from experience. We abhor the follies of war, and are not untried in its distresses and calamities.

We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.

I believe the NME have deliberately tried to characterise me as a racist in a recent interview in order to boost their circulation. I abhor racism and cruelty of any kind and will not let this pass.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

I abhor nothing more than bumping into someone I know on the Tube.

I have to ask you to resist, not to comply, to destroy the power men have over women, to refuse to accept it, to abhor it and to do whatever is necessary despite its cost to you to change it.

We all abhor terrorists, but we have to treat them as dangerous to all of us, not to any one particular country.

I hate injustice, I despise inequity, I condemn hypocrisy, I abhor the lack of reason.

I abhor discrimination. The way I was raised was like most Hoosiers, with the golden rule, that you should do unto others what you'd have them do unto you.

I abhor 'baby talk.' I speak to kids like I would any other person, and they seem to respond to it.

Men of sense in all ages abhor those customs which treat us only as the vassals of your sex.

We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?

I abhor the words 'classical music.' Few things satisfy me more than a really good cover version.

I abhor the word "consumer." Consumers, unlike citizens, have no implicit duties, obligations, or responsibilities to the common good. It's a degrading term. The use of it degrades the public discussion.

I abhor crime novels in which the main character can behave however he or she pleases, or do things that normal people do not do, without those actions having social consequences.

I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils

I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor.

We conservatives bemoan the decline in values that has besieged our society. Why then should we not abhor the lack of morality involved in discharging untested chemicals into the air, ground, and water to alter and harm, to whatever degree, human life and wildlife? As a conservative, I do abhor it.

I abhor mere prettiness.

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them.

O marriage! marriage! what a curse is thine, Where hands alone consent and hearts abhor.

Compulsion in religion is distinguished peculiarly from compulsion in every other thing. ...I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.

I abhor the profane rabble and keep them at a distance.

I abhor a hoe. I am fond of flowers but not of dirt, and had rather buy them than cultivate them.

Terrorism and the whole drug scene are vivid examples of the fact that what persons abhor most of all in life is the possibility that they will not matter.

It is because I perceive the danger in the practice of mystic wonders, that I loath, abhor, and am ashamed thereof.

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

I hate good press, and I abhor bad press.

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.

A message you abhor has to be trumped with a more powerful one.

Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee.

I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.

When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.