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Odious ideas are not entitled to hide from criticism behind the human shield of their believers feelings. -- Richard Stallman
I think comparisons are odious. -- John Madden
Sorrow makes an ugly face odious. -- Samuel Richardson
Ageism is as odious as racism and sexism. -- Claude Pepper
To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father. -- Virginia Woolf
A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists. -- Honore de Balzac
Yes, you are under surveillance. Yes, it is odious. Yes, it should bother you. And yes, it's hard to know how to avoid it. -- Nick Harkaway
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. -- Harlan F. Stone
None of us are nuclear experts, but we know that if there is a melt-down and breach of containment, that's clearly the most odious thing that could happen. -- William Scranton
It's always seemed odd to me that after a group of terrorists commits a vile and odious deed they rush messages to the public to claim credit for it. -- Russell Baker
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility. -- Thomas Szasz
What makes tar sands particularly odious is that the energy you get out in the end, per unit carbon dioxide, is poor. It's equivalent to burning coal in your automobile. -- James Hansen
I like playing Vernon Dursley in 'Harry Potter,' because that gives me a license to be horrible to kids. I hate the odious business of sucking up to the public. -- Richard Griffiths
We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it. -- Yishan Wong
The U.S. invaded the wrong country, destroying an odious government that was not responsible for 9/11. I don't know how you recover from invading the wrong country, no matter how you spin it. -- Richard Engel
A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others' positions, no matter how odious. -- Ed Royce
Jackson went from the professor's chair to the officer's saddle. He carried with him the very elements of character which made him odious as a teacher; but I never saw him in an arbitrary mood. -- Daniel H. Hill
But I think I can sincerely declare that I cheerfully submit myself to every odious name for conscience' sake; and from my soul I despise all those whose guilt, malice, or folly has made them my foes. -- James Otis
All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than the rich, powerful and arrogant trying to keep it that way. -- Simon Hoggart
My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong. -- Frank Miller
I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush. -- Jack Germond
I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God. -- Francesco Guicciardini
When you see the misogyny of hip-hop, it's so horrible, it's so putrid, it's so, you know, odious, that we know, we smell, we see it. The misogyny that is reified, that is reinforced, that is subtly reproduced in corporate America or in church life or in synagogues and temples and the like, is sometimes more subtly dealt with. -- Michael Eric Dyson
A man must fortify himself and understand that a wise man who yields to laziness or anger or passion or love of drink, or who commits any other action prompted by impulse and inopportune, will probably find his fault condoned; but if he stoops to greed, he will not be pardoned, but render himself odious as a combination of all vices at once. -- Apollonius of Tyana
Comparisons are odious. -- Miguel de Cervantes
The treason pleases, but the traitors are odious. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Flattery labors under the odious charge of servility. -- Tacitus
Nothing is more odious than music without hidden meaning. -- Frederic Chopin
Never compare one person with another: comparisons are odious. -- Teresa of Avila
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place. -- William Cobbett
Vanity makes people ridiculous, pride odious, and ambition terrible. -- Richard Steele
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious. -- Emile M. Cioran
The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice. -- Robert H. Jackson
What is odious but . . . people . . . who toast their feet on the register. . . . -- Marsilio Ficino
Kindness acts Not always as you think; a hated hand Renders it odious. -- Pierre Corneille
Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. -- Isaac Newton
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. -- John Stuart Mill
Forever all goodness will be most charming; forever all wickedness will be most odious. -- Thomas Sprat
We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors. -- Guy de Maupassant
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor. -- Tacitus
See Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face. -- George Crabbe
When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons. -- Aldous Huxley
The day seems long, but night is odious; no sleep, but dreams; no dreams but visions strange. -- Philip Sidney
Peter Mandelson is one of the most odious, self-satisfied, misogynistic men I have ever met. Compellingly, fascinatingly horrible. -- Jemima Khan
Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation. -- Benjamin Franklin
Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them. -- Mark Twain
The Roman government appeared every day less formidable to its enemies, more odious and oppressive to its subjects. -- Edward Gibbon
But camels, though odious to view and endowed with the offensive spirit, did not enjoy the blessing of pachydermaty. -- F. E. Adcock
Vicious habits are so odious and degrading that they transform the individual who practices them into an incarnate demon. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
To subject every private family to the odious visits and examination of the tax-gatherers ... would be altogether inconsistent with liberty. -- Adam Smith
The exercise of authority is odious, and they who know how to govern, leave it in abeyance as much as possible. -- John Lancaster Spalding
An important art of politicians is to find new names for institutions which under old names have become odious to the public. -- Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
The oppression of a majority is detestable and odious; the oppression of a minority is only by one degree less detestable and odious. -- William E. Gladstone
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous. -- James Gibbons
Why do guys insist on wearing those odious jeans with their rear ends hanging down around their ankles? Do they really think it's hot? -- Steve Kluger
A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables. -- Norton Juster
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious. -- Margaret George
Distinctions between citizens solely because of their ancestry are by their very nature odious to a free people whose institutions are founded upon the doctrine of equality. -- Harlan F. Stone
All false practices and affections of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be. -- Thomas Sprat
We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it. -- John Sherman
The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of his own, the object of odious tokenism. -- David Bennun
When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or will, given time enough. -- Theodore Dreiser
Whenever I read _Time_ or _Newsweek_ or such magazines, I wash my hands afterward. But how to wash off the small but odious stain such reading leaves on the mind? -- Edward Abbey
Gospel repentance is not a little hanging down of the head. It's a working of the heart until your sin becomes more odious to you than any punishment for it. -- Richard Sibbes
The work that the kids saw around them was so odious, so boring, so worthless that they came to regard WORK as the only dirty four-letter word in the English language. -- Abbie Hoffman
Best masters for the young writer and speaker are the fault- finding brothers and sisters at home who will not spare him, but willpick and cavil, and tell the odious truth. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Is it possible your pragmatical worship should not know that the comparisons made between wit and wit, courage and courage, beauty and beauty, birth and birth, are always odious and ill taken?. -- Miguel de Cervantes
A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of non pertinent correspondence, an odious approximation, a haunting conscience, a preposterous shadow, lengthening in the noontide of our prosperity. -- Charles Lamb
I cannot but conclude that the Bulk of your Natives, to be the most pernicious Race of little odious Vermin that Nature ever suffered to crawl upon the Surface of the Earth. -- Jonathan Swift
The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
A few persons of an odious and despised country could not have filled the world with believers, had they not shown undoubted credentials from the divine person who sent them on such a message. -- Joseph Addison
The liberty of the press is dear to England; the licentiousness of the press is odious to England: the liberty of it can never be so well protected as by beating down the licentiousness. -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone. -- Edith Sitwell
After puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious.... Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late. -- Antonio Gramsci
A big part of the problem that we face today is that our children have been taught at schools that every idea is right, that no one should criticize others positions, no matter how odious. -- Ed Royce
I mistake the American people if they favor the odious doctrine that there is no such thing as international morality; that there is one law for a strong nation and another for a weak one. -- Grover Cleveland

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