Abomination Quotes

• There is no story that is not true, [...] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.

  Chinua Achebe

  People, Stories, World

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.99, Heinemann

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• I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left...

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Men, New Day, Soldier

  "The Garden of Forking Paths". Book by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

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• An unholy church! It is useless to the world, and of no esteem among men. It is an abomination, hells laughter, heavens abhorrence. The worst evils which have ever come upon the world have been brought upon her by an unholy church.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Laughter, Men, Evil

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.716, Discovery House

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• A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Lying, Dishonesty, Helping

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• In the dust where we have buried the silent races and their abominations we have buried so much of the delicate magic of life.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Race, Dust, Civilization

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• If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Southern, Soul, Literature

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.81

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• A "just war" is hospitable to every self-deception on the part of those waging it, none more than the certainty of virtue, under whose shelter every abomination can be committed with a clear conscience.

  Alexander Cockburn

  War, Self, Deception

  New Statesman and Society (Magazine), February 8, 1991.

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• There is no story that is not true.

  Chinua Achebe

  Stories, Things Fall Apart Important, Things Fall Apart Okonkwo

  Chinua Achebe (1996). “Things Fall Apart”, p.99, Heinemann

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• The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.

  Martin Luther

  Earth, Mass, Blasphemy

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1857). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.69

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• Remote villages and rural communities have lost their identity, and their charm and peace have been sacrificed to that worst of abominations, the automobile.

  James Norman Hall

  Car, Community, Lost Friendship

  "Under a Thatched Roof".

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• But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.

  Jim McDermott

  Hurt, Thinking, Government

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• But I couldn't draw as fast as she requested. Thus, I tried to create the worst abomination of a comic that I could, so as to make her not want comics anymore. That abomination, my friends, was Happy Noodle Boy.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  Friends, Boys, Want

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• Furthermore, we have not even to risk the adventure alone; for the heroes of all time have gone before us; the labyrinth is thoroughly known; we have only to follow the thread of the hero-path. And where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence; and where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 1), 2008.

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• This one isn’t just any old horse. There’s a nobility in his eye, a regal serenity about him. Does he not personify all that men try to be and never can be? I tell you, my friend, there’s divinity in a horse, and specially in a horse like this. God got it right the day he created them. And to find a horse like this in the middle of this filthy abomination of a war, is for me like finding a butterfly on a dung heap. We don’t belong in the same universe as a creature like this.

  Michael Morpurgo

  Horse, War, Butterfly

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• Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy? Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination? Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?

  Barack Obama

  Children, Muslim Faith, Mind Blowing

  Barack Obama (2009). “Barack Obama: Speeches on the Road to the White House”

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• A Republican primary race that has for months alternated between spectacle and abomination has over the past 20th hours ignited into a raging, full-blown dumpster fire. One stoke by a group of men who hope to become the most powerful person in the world.

  Chris Hayes

  Powerful, Past, Men

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, Powerful, Mistake

  "Things Fall Apart". Book by Chinua Achebe (Chapter 15, p. 130), 1958.

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• What I created got abominated.

  Ralph H. Baer

  Creating, Criticism, Creation

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• He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable.

  Joseph Conrad

  Darkness, Fascination, Midst

  Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Jewish people have been victims of anti-Semitism in many parts of the world, and in Europe they were the target of the Holocaust, the ultimate abomination. Yet, we cannot expect Palestinians to accept this as a reason why the wrongs done to them.

  Kofi Annan

  Europe, People, Holocaust

  Kofi A. Annan (2015). “We the Peoples: A UN for the Twenty-First Century”, p.120, Routledge

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• We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true.

  Chinua Achebe

  Strong, Powerful, Gun

  FaceBook post by Chinua Achebe from Nov 10, 2011

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• For we have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heros of all time have gone before us.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Hero, Adventure

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.151, Anchor

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• I encouraged the Chinese to support Pol Pot. I encouraged the Thailand|Thai to help the Khmer Rouge. The question was how to help the Cambodian people. Pol Pot was an abomination. We could never support him. But China could.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  People, Support, Chinese

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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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• 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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