Clint Smith

The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of activists who have decried the social stratification brought about by our prison systems.

American Writer

Simon Baron-Cohen

I'm not satisfied with the term 'evil.' We've inherited this word... and we use it to express our abhorrence when people do awful things, usually acts of cruelty, but I don't think it's anything more than another word for doing something bad.

British Psychologist

Joseph Rotblat

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.

Polish Physicist

Meena Harris

As a community, Silicon Valley must adopt principles that reflect our abhorrence toward sexual harassment - and it is these principles that must guide our collective behavior.

American Lawyer

Charles Krauthammer

The one thing that's always been the center of my political thinking - and it goes back to when I was 19 and editor of my college paper - is an abhorrence of the extreme.

American Journalist

Frederick Douglass

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.

American Author

St. Jerome

Those who persevere in sin are those who are held in abhorrence by God, but those who abandon the ways of sin are loved by the Lord.

Saint

John Sergeant Wise

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

Edgar Allan Poe

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.

American Poet

Edward Heath

Abhorrence of apartheid is a moral attitude, not a policy.

English Leader

Abhorrence is used for intense feelings, stronger than dislike or hate.

Extreme Hatred

Abhorrence shouldn't be confused with mild forms of discomfort or aversion.

Not Mild Discomfort

Sometimes, abhorrence can imply a physical reaction, like shuddering, to the hated item.

Physical Reaction

This definition implies a moral or ethical judgment against something.

Morally Charged

Abhorrence here suggests a strong condemnation and rejection of a concept or action.

Strong Condemnation

It typically refers to more than personal dislike and includes a universal sense of wrong.