The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
I do feel visceral revulsion at the burka because for me it is a symbol of the oppression of women.
I suppose half of writing is overcoming the revulsion you feel when you sit down to it.
The nature of democracy is such that when there's - there'll be revulsion, obviously, towards - that's never going to happen again.
I'm not alone in having obese people in my circle and in my family. I have loved morbidly obese people, and I don't approach obesity with revulsion or judgment but with empathy and compassion.
There are few things that so touch us with instinctive revulsion as a breach of decorum.
I shall speak of how melancholy and utopia preclude one another. How they fertilize one another. . . of the revulsion that follows one insight and precedes the next. . . of superabundance and surfeit. Of stasis in progress. And of myself, for whom melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
Language and, presumably, literature are more ancient and inevitable, more durable than any form of social organization. The revulsion, irony, or indifference often expressed by literature toward the state is essentially the reaction of the permanent-better yet, the infinite-against the temporary, against the finite.
Generally, the greater the stigma or revulsion, the better the bargain.
You can't breathe for sheer revulsion when you keep finding the bodies of women with bamboo poles thrust up their vaginas. Even old women over 70 are constantly being raped.
Guns don't kill people, people kill people.
