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Abhorrence
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,
English
Mathematician
#Practice
#Men
#Silly
#Contempt
#Abhorrence
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,
American
Author
#Ridicule
#Abhorrence
Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.
Edward Heath,
English
Leader
#Policy
#Attitude
#Abhorrence
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
Edgar Allan Poe,
American
Poet
#Effect
#Terror
#Danger
#Abhorrence
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,
Polish
Physicist
#Weapons
#Race
#Desire
#Potential
#Abhorrence
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,
American
Author
#Now
#Slavery
#Abhorrence