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Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy. -- Edward Heath
By 1782 [John Adams] had come to feel for [Benjamin] Franklin "no other sentiments than Contempt or Abhorrence." -- Gordon S. Wood
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. -- Edgar Allan Poe
In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now. -- John Sergeant Wise
I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. -- Frederick Douglass
Long before the terrifying potential of the arms race was recognized, there was a widespread instinctive abhorrence of nuclear weapons, and a strong desire to get rid of them. -- Joseph Rotblat
The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme. -- Charles Krauthammer
Whence it is somewhat strange that any men from so mean and silly a practice should expect commendation, or that any should afford regard thereto; the which it is so far from meriting, that indeed contempt and abhorrence are due to it. -- Isaac Barrow
We should transmit to posterity our abhorrence of slavery. -- Patrick Henry
The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all. -- Bergen Evans
The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all. -- Beryl Markham
There's no abhorrence about wearing M&S. We just haven't been delighting the girls. -- Stuart Rose
Mumbling obeisance to abhorrence of apartheid is like those lapsed believers who cross themselves when entering a church. -- Nadine Gordimer
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of sin, was never invented by any of Adam's descendents. -- Arthur W. Pink
Prejudice validates itself as righteous abhorrence of the criminally deviant. So Christian homophobia is just a metonym of that abjection in general. -- Hal Duncan
A person has two passions for love and abhorrence. A big disposition to excessiveness has just a love, because it is more ardent and stronger. -- Rene Descartes
For I had loved Seid even in his darkest hours, even as he cursed me and we rode upon a fine line between ardor and abhorrence -- Jennifer Silverwood
It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution. -- Mahatma Gandhi
With our sympathy for the wrongdoer we need the old Puritan and Quaker hatred of wrongdoing; with our just tolerance of men and opinions a righteous abhorrence of sin. -- John Greenleaf Whittier
The question is this - Is man an ape or an angel? My Lord, I am on the side of the angels. I repudiate with indignation and abhorrence these new fanged theories. -- Benjamin Disraeli
The bitterness of the potion, and the abhorrence of the patient are necessary circumstances to the operation. It must be something to trouble and disturb the stomach that must purge and cure it. -- Michel de Montaigne
Every measure of prudence, therefore, ought to be assumed for the eventual total extirpation of slavery from the United States ... I have, throughout my whole life, held the practice of slavery in ... abhorrence. -- John Adams
My mind was bursting with depression and anguish. I muttered imprecations and murmuring as I passed along. I was full of loathing and abhorrence of life, and all that life carries in its train. -- William Godwin
Let your observations and comparisons produce in your mind an abhorrence of domination and power, the parent of slavery, ignorance, and barbarism, which places man upon a level with his fellow tenants of the woods. -- Abigail Adams

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