Repugnant Quotes

We received the report and understand the findings. We took the issue seriously at the time during the summer. We continue to take the line that racism in cricket grounds is repugnant, un-Australian and unacceptable. - Philip Pope

To promote a woman to bear rule, superiority, dominion, or empire above any realm, nation, or city, is repugnant to nature; contumely to God, a thing most contrary to his revealed will and approved ordinance; and finally, it is the subversion of good order, of all equity and justice. - John Knox

To kidnap and kill anyone is inexcusable. But it is repugnant to commit such a crime against a woman who has spent most of her life working for the good of the people of Iraq. - Jack Straw

This alleged action is repugnant to our common values, is contrary to our commands-approved tactical operating procedures, and is not sanctioned by this command. - Jason Kamiya

They've been molesting children, and now they say, everybody does it? It's morally repugnant. When I was in Catholic school if I did something wrong and then said, 'Well, Johnny did it, too,' I would be very firmly informed that pointing fingers at others is not an acceptable response. - Gwyn Green

The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings. - John Fitzgerald Kennedy

The Serb population is suffering a repression that is much smaller but just as brutal and repugnant as that suffered previously by Albanians. - Lamberto Dini

The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as the horrid cruelties and murders it ascribes to Him are repugnant to our ideas of His justice. - Thomas Paine

The leader of Iran made one of the most repugnant remarks the international community has heard since Adolf Hitler. - Tom Lantos