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Quotes About Vile

Republicans need to speak up, and people need to know that not all Republicans are represented by the hostile, vile voice of Donald Trump.
~ Ana Navarro
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
God made Himself totally a man but a man to the point of infamy, a man to the point of reprobation and the abyss. To save us, He could have chosen *any* of the destinies which make up the complex web of history; He could have been Alexander or Pythagoras or Rurik or Jesus; He chose the vilest destiny of all: He was Judas.
~ Jorge Luís Borges
No indeed, the world is just as concrete, ornery, vile and sublimely wonderful as before, only now I better understand my relation to it and it to me.
~ Ralph Ellison
As we are, so we associate. The good, by affinity, seek the good; the vile, by affinity, the vile. Thus of their own volition, souls proceed into Heaven, into Hell.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jim started, and his answer was full of deference; but the odious and fleshy figure, as though seen for the first time in a revealing moment, fixed itself in his memory for ever as the incarnation of everything vile and base that lurks in the world we love: in our own hearts we trust for our salvation, in the men that surround us, in the sights that fill our eyes, in the sounds that fill our ears, and in the air that fills our lungs.
~ Joseph Conrad
The politics of the day infuriated him: even when power lay with the politicians he supported, and the opposition appeared to be failing, so much in the political sphere seemed to him vile, vulgar, meretricious, inane—he threatened that he wouldn't be voting at all. The
~ Joyce Carol Oates
What could be more thrilling to the self-righteous than to join a crusade against such a vile predator?
~ Wendy James
The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.
~ Wilfred Owen
I'm a diplomat, I make myself agreeable to some of the most vile people on earth
~ Alan Furst
The Bible, Shakespeare, Milton, Melville—the masters of the King's English all promoted the easy imagery of black as vile and white as purity and thereby fed a deep and potent racism that well served all who would enslave the black men of Africa.
~ Richard Kluger
There's too much of that where-every-prospect-pleases-and-only-man-is-vile stuff buzzing around for my taste.
~ P. G. Wodehouse
Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
Men are vile inconstant toads.
~ Mary Wortley Montagu
He who thinks all mankind is vile is a pessimist who mistakes his introspection for observation; he looks into his own heart and thinks he sees the world.
~ William George Jordan
But isn't it better to know the truth, no matter how vile?" He lifted up his head and cackled. "Whoever told you such nonsense? One kind lie is worth a thousand truths.
~ William Lashner
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
~ David Brainerd
This is a den of the worst kind of slave-traders; those whom I met in Urungu and Itawa were gentlemen slavers: the Ujiji slavers, like the Kilwa and Portuguese, are the vilest of the vile. It is not a trade, but a system of consecutive murders; they go to plunder and kidnap, and every trading trip is nothing but a foray.
~ David Livingstone
I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.
~ David Brainerd
Home is heaven and orgies are vile, But I like an orgy, once in a while.
~ Ogden Nash
These monstrous criminals have demonstrated a vile and brutal affront against humanity.
~ Silvio Berlusconi
I don't have enough gross words in my gross vocabulary to describe how gross that gross thought is. Gross.
~ A.S. King, Ask the Passengers
The vile beverage packed plenty of kick; he hadn't had a hangover this bad since his wedding night. His head was spinning, his eyes were blurred, and his mouth tasted like he'd been chewing on bantha fur.
~ Drew Karpyshyn
All this dread order break- for whom? for thee? Vile worm!- oh madness! pride! impiety!
~ Alexander Pope