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Abhorrence Quotes
Quotes on deep moral revulsion and reflection.
One quote recalls how abhorrence of nuclear weapons grew widespread only after the arms race revealed their terrifying potential. Another looks back with discomfort at how slavery was once tolerated, even in Quaker Philadelphia, without the shudder it provokes now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
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In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.
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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.
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- Nov 07, 2020