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Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.
I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.
Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.
If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.
Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
I think I have a great deal of self-hatred, a profound feeling of fraudulence, of being detestable and evil. It's only a part of me, but it's there, and it's active.
Loving someone whose ideas we find detestable can seem impossible, and empathizing with them isn't much easier - but it's so important to remember that listening is not agreeing.
I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.
When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
The challenge in writing a show that's about people and their flaws is that it can easily tip over - okay, I'll sometimes watch something, and there will be characters that are written in a way that I'll know that the writer just hates human beings. They're expressing this misanthropic point of view with these detestable characters.