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

  Marlon Riggs

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• People write to me all the time to tell me that "homosexuality is an abomination." They base this on a quote in Leviticus. I think the Bible has proved to be a very mysterious and dangerous document.

  Anne Rice

  Writing, Thinking, People

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• I am the only wretch who keeps on heaping new iniquities and abominations on myself. O Monsieur, how merciful God is to put up with me with so much patience and forbearance, and how weak and miserable I am to abuse his mercies so greatly!

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Abuse, Miserable

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Tomato and lettuce-especially lettuce-is an abomination.

  Mimi Sheraton

  Tomatoes, Lettuce

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• There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films.

  Ray Bradbury

  Fiction, Kind, Film

  Source: www.jasonmarchi.com

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• War is a great destroyer. And human history has arrived at a pivotal moment. We can choose a path built on cooperation, where our caring and sharing side uplifts us, or we can continue to embrace a worldview where domination using violence imprisons us in cycles of killing and destruction. I'm a biologist, and war is not genetically fixed. War is a cultural invention. It's time to end this abomination, and this World Beyond War movement is uniquely focused on unifying the human community to create one of the biggest revolutions in history. I'm in. Join us!

  Judith Hand

  Uplifting, War, Caring

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• Is not cant the materia prima of the devil, from which all falsehoods, imbecilities, abominations, body themselves, from which no true thing can come? For cant is itself the properly a double-distilled lie, the second power of a lie.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, Devil, Body

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “The French Revolution: a History”, p.48

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• Doing abominations is against the law, particularly if the abominations are done while wearing a lobster bib.

  Woody Allen

  Law, Lobster, Done

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• The way you give love is the most profoundly human part of you. When people say it's ugly or a perversion or an abomination, they're attacking the center of your being.

  Tony Kushner

  Love Is, People, Giving

  "Tony Kushner's Paradise Lost" by Arthur Lubow, www.newyorker.com. November 30, 1992.

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