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Quotes About Abomination

The thing was not a human — it could not be; it was a growth of Life from the pits of blasphemous creation — a perversion of evolutionary development. The
~ Robert E. Howard
The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an abomination unto the Lord. This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness.
~ Aleister Crowley
It was too much for the mullah. "It is forbidden to alter the creations of Allah!" he erupted. "If sculpture is enjoined by the Prophet, how much greater an abomination is it to sculpt living flesh? Six-legged camels! Horses with toes! Turbofalcons and three-headed hunting dogs! The production of novelties for the idle rich! And now the idolaters have not shrunk from dabbling in man himself!
~ Donald Moffitt
Começou a me dar um certo nojinho dele. É horrível quando isso acontece, tão horrível que muita gente se recusa a reconhecer que passou por isso, mas a verdade é que, antes de a gente se livrar de alguém, às vezes dá um nojinho. Horrível, até porque a pessoa pode não ter culpa, mas de repente fica nojenta, cheiros inaceitáveis, manchas de pele insuportáveis, roupas sujas repelentes, hálito ascoso, cabelo fedido, tudo irremediavelmente nojento.
~ João Ubaldo Ribeiro
Abomination of desolation.
~ Anonymous
Finney allowed that "the business aims and practices of business men are almost universally an abomination in the sight of God.
~ Ronald J. Sider
But at last I began to consider that that which is highly esteemed among men is had in abomination with God. And I thought again, this Shame tells me what men are; but it tells me nothing what God, or the word of God is. And I thought, moreover, that at the day of doom we shall not be doomed to death or life according to the hectoring spirits of the world, but according to the wisdom and law of the Highest.
~ John Bunyan
The exploitation of man by man and the logic of maximum profit, which before had been considered an abomination, had returned to become the linchpins of freedom and democracy everywhere.
~ Elena Ferrante
La explotación del hombre por el hombre y la lógica del máximo beneficio, antes consideradas una abominación, volvían a ser en todas partes las bases de la libertad y la democracia.
~ Elena Ferrante
Evidently what in the fiction of the story serves in all innocence to reach the heart of the reader becomes an abomination for one who feels the echo of the facts she has really lived.
~ Elena Ferrante
History will probably, because of the almost total abomination of the entertainment industry and the media, picture me as some kind of witch who was out for her own personal gain and crusading to do away with the homosexuals.
~ Anita Bryant
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
Just time for a mug of coffee in the meanwhile." Crowley was already beginning to work on a third arrow. "Good idea," he said. Then he frowned as a thought struck him. "Have you noticed that Leander puts milk in his coffee?" Halt grunted. "The man's a savage." Crowley raised an eyebrow. "This from the man who laces his coffee with honey?" "Honey is natural," Halt told him. "Milk is little short of an abomination.
~ John Flanagan
Good idea," he said. Then he frowned as a thought struck him. "Have you noticed that Leander puts milk in his coffee?" Halt grunted. "The man's a savage." Crowley raised an eyebrow. "This from the man who laces his coffee with honey?" "Honey is natural," Halt told him. "Milk is little short of an abomination.
~ John Flanagan
the pope. "I defy him, (quoth he), and all his detestable abomination: I will in no wise have to do with him.
~ John Foxe
you'll never forget. There is a guardhouse just before the Wauwinet Inn where you purchase your sticker. On your way home, you can pop into the Wauwinet's super-cute tiny bar for a drink. (Topper's, the restaurant, is exquisite but expensive, even by Nantucket standards.) There are some people who think driving on a beach is an abomination. I respect that—and so does Nantucket. Most beaches do not allow cars. Here are some of my favorite
~ Elin Hilderbrand
But it was dreadful to think of Henry, slowly or swiftly corrupted by his detestable father and mother, growing up with the fat slime of their abominations upon him.
~ Arthur Machen
I've never been a big gore guy.
~ Jon Bernthal
The abominable goth! he cried.
~ Arthur Conan Doyle
It is unholy because it is heretic. It is foul. It is abominable to need something so badly that you cannot picture living without it. It is a contradiction to the condition of mankind.
~ Shirley Jackson
Am I all evil, then? It must be so. If I was created so, born to this fate, who could deny the savagery of God? May I never see that day! Never! Rather let me vanish from the race of men Than know the abomination destined me!
~ Sophocles
I think how veterans are treated in our country is an abomination. We don't have the draft any more, which is why so many soldiers come from working-class - rather than middle- or high-income families. Those wealthier families aren't affected, so they're not agitating for change.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
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
I look through the old record collection my dad gave me. Stress relief. I shuffle through the albums feverishly and find what I'm looking for-the Proclaimers. I chuck it on and watch it spin. The ridiculous first notes of Five Hundred Miles come on, and I feel like going berserk. Even the Proclaimers are giving me the shits tonight. Their singing's an abomination.
~ Markus Zusak