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abhorrent
«There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue is abhorrent to them, and so inveterately dishonest that theft is to them a master passion. When a human being has reached that stage, there is only one course that can be rationally pursued. Sorrowfully, but remorselessly, it must be recognized that he has become lunatic, morally demented, incapable of self-government, and that upon him, therefore, must be passed the sentence of permanent seclusion from a world in which he is not fit to be at large.»
Author: William Booth
(Spiritual leader)
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«The more abhorrent a news item the more comforting it was to be the recipient, since the fact that it had happened elsewhere proved that it had not happened here, was not happening here, and would therefore never happen here»
«There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.»
«I feel I cannot touch humanity, even in thought, it is abhorrent to me. But a work of art is an act of faith, as Michael Angelo says, and one goes on writing, to the unseen witnesses.»
Author: D.H. Lawrence
(Essayist, Novelist, Poet)
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abhorrent, Michael, Michael Angelo, On Writing, The Unseen, unseen, witnesses, work of art
«Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's fle»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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abhorrent, barbarism, endowed
«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.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
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abhorrent, imprison, unpopular