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• Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

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• The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

  Matt Taibbi

  People, House, Labyrinth

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.21, Black Cat

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• He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know.

  Joseph Conrad

  Darkness, Fascination, Midst

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Heart of Darkness”, p.22, eKitap Projesi

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• We may sing our hymns and psalms, and offer prayers, but they will be an abomination to God, unless we are willing to be thoroughly straightforward in our daily life.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Prayer, Hypocrite, Hymns

  Dwight L Moody (1987). “Prevailing Prayer”, p.37, Moody Publishers

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• I pledge impertinence to the flag waving, of the unindicted co-conspirators of America, and to the republicans for which I can't stand, one abomination, underhanded fraud, indefensible, with Liberty and Justice.. Forget it.

  Matt Groening

  America, Justice, Liberty

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• There is no more evil thing in this world than race prejudice, none at all. [...] It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty, and abomination than any other sort of error in the world.

  H. G. Wells

  Errors, Race, Evil

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• To see evil and call it good, mocks God. Worse, it makes goodness meaningless. A word without meaning is an abomination, for when the word passes beyond understanding the very thing the word stands for passes out of the world and cannot be recalled.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Evil, Understanding, World

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• I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.

  Pat Robertson

  Evil, Triumph, Down And

  "Pat Robertson: Pray for justices to retire". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. July 17, 2003.

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• Follow your dream as long as you live, do not lessen the time of following desire, for wasting time is an abomination of the spirit.

  Plato

  Success, Dream, Long

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• Turn the anger of the Almighty against the godless Turks and Barbarians who despise Christ the Lord.....In the royal city of the east, they have slain the successor of Constantine and his people, desecrated the temples of the Lord, defiled the noble church of Justinian with their Mohometan abominations. Each success, will only be a stepping stone until he has mastered all the Western Monarchs, overthrow the Christian Faith, and imposed the law of his false prophet on the whole world

  Pope Pius II

  Christian, Law, Cities

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• It is necessary to constantly remind ourselves that we are not an abomination.

  Marlon Riggs

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• [I can] scarcely write upon mathematics or mathematicians. Oh for words to express my abomination of the science.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Writing, Mathematics, Mathematician

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• It`s an absolute abomination. Whether intentional corruption or mismanagement , it seems like FEMA is just a money pit.

  Mark Foley

  Pits, Corruption, Absolutes

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• In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

  William Safire

  Order, Judging, Style

  "Essay; Seizing Dictatorial Power" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. November 15, 2001.

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• Brothers, you came from our own people. You are killing your own brothers. Any human order to kill must be subordinate to the law of God, which says, 'Thou shalt not kill'. No soldier is obliged to obey an order contrary to the law of God. No one has to obey an immoral law. It is high time you obeyed your consciences rather than sinful orders. The church cannot remain silent before such an abomination. ...In the name of God, in the name of this suffering people whose cry rises to heaven more loudly each day, I implore you, I beg you, I order you: stop the repression.

  Oscar Romero

  Brother, Names, Order

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• In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest, in the jungles, in the hearts of wild men. There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is detestable. And it has a fascination, too, which goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination--you know. Imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.

  Joseph Conrad

  Regret, Hate, Heart

  Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.71, Broadview Press

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• Knicks and dull edges are abominations, so use knives and hatchets for nothing but they were made for.

  Horace Kephart

  Knives, Use, Dull

  Horace Kephart (1922). “Camping”

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• The very first day that President [Barack] Obama was inaugurated, his first act as a president was to rescind that ban on third-trimester abortions. And he's even carried it further. Now, even if the baby is born alive, they have the right to kill that baby. It is an abomination.

  Ted Cruz

  Baby, Abortion, President

  "The 68 Most Controversial Things Ted Cruz's Dad Has Ever Said" by Ilan Ben-Meir, Andrew Kaczynski, Megan Apper, www.buzzfeed.com. March 23, 2015.

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• Social mores change with time, like fashion - who knows where it might all end up? I especially like the idea that waste, impoliteness and overpopulation become "abominations," although I'm not sure recycling one's aunt will ever truly catch on.

  Jasper Fforde

  Fashion, Aunt, Ideas

  "An interview with Jasper Fforde". Book Browse Interview, www.bookbrowse.com. 2010.

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• I truly don't judge other people's actions. But I think that factory farming is an abomination.

  Moby

  Thinking, People, Judging

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Consider everything in the nature of a hanging fixture a weakness, and naked radiators an abomination.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Weakness, Naked, Fixture

  David A. Hanks, Frank Lloyd Wright, Renwick Gallery (1979). “The Decorative Designs of Frank Lloyd Wright”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sacrifice, Christ, Crime

  John Chrysostom (2010). “Discourses Against Judaizing Christians (The Fathers of the Church, Volume 68)”, p.26, CUA Press

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• The history of woman is the history of the continued and universal oppression of one sex by the other. The emancipation of woman is her restoration to equal rights and privileges with man.... Need we wonder, then, at the sad spectacle which humanity offers us? Its hideous wars, its social abominations, its foul creeds, its treacheries, vices, wants, diseases, lusts, tyrannies, and crimes are the natural outcome of the subjugation of one half of the human race by the other.

  Tennessee Celeste Claflin

  Sex, War, Men

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• Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.

  Mona Eltahawy

  Girl, Baby, Children

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• Thomas Jefferson, the leading Enlightenment figure in the United States, along with Benjamin Franklin, who took exactly the same view, argued that dependence will lead to "subservience and venality", and will "suffocate the germs of virtue". And remember, by dependence he meant wage labor, which was considered an abomination under classical liberal principles.

  Noam Chomsky

  Views, Enlightenment, Principles

  "Education and Democracy". Talk at Michigan State University, March 28, 1995.

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