The American people abhor a vacuum.
. . . for her whom in life thou dids't abhor, in death thou shalt adore
Adore God, abhor sin.
On the one hand we publicly pronounce the equality of all peoples; on the other hand, in our immigration laws, we embrace in practice these very theories we abhor and verbally condemn.
I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.
When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.
I live, but live to die: and, living, see nothing to make death hateful, save an innate clinging, a loathsome and yet all invincible instinct of life, which I abhor, as I despise myself, yet cannot overcome — and so I live. Would I had never lived!
I abhor grades - if a child does his best, that's all that should be asked.
We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
I adore extravagance but I abhor waste.
People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.
I may grow rich by an art I am compelled to follow; I may recover health by medicines I am compelled to take against my own judgment; but I cannot be saved by a worship I disbelieve and abhor.
This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor. . . This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.
You must show the world that you abhor fighting.
We talk of the Turks, and abhor the cannibals; but may not some of them, go to heaven, before some of us?
We oppose and abhor the damnable practice of wholesale abortion and every other unholy and impure act which strikes at the very foundation of the home and family, our most basic institutions.
We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.
I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime; I can so sincerely forgive the first while I abhor the last.
Few things loves better Than to abhor himself.
