Abhors Quotes
On strong reactions dressed up as plain fact.
Several of these lines lean on the same idea from different angles — that minds, like nature, "abhor" gaps: discrepancies, unexplained phenomena, a vacuum of explanation. One older text uses the word in a heavier, more legal sense about forced belief. Browse Book for more.
To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
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Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to...
Annihilation Quotes
The reason people turn to supernatural explanations is that the mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. Because we do not yet have a fully natural explanation for mind and consciousness, people turn to supernatural explanations to fill the void.
By the law of Christ, every man is bound to love his neighbour as himself; but every servant is a neighbour of every civil lord; therefore every civil lord must love any of his servants as himself; but by natural...
Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.
Asset Quotes
There is nothing more inimical to writing than the spirit of fundamentalism. Fundamentalism abhors the play of signs, the endlessness of writing. Fundamentalism means nothing more or less than going back to an origin and staying there. It stands for...
Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.
Authoritarian Quotes
Government tends to stifle innovation, and it abhors improvisation. Any good military strategist will tell you that a battle plan rarely survives past the first engagement. After that, you have to improvise to survive and to win.
Sane judgment abhors nothing so much as a picture perpetrated with no technical knowledge, although with plenty of care and diligence.
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The common thread is discomfort with the unresolved, whether that's a scientific puzzle or a moral one. For nearby ideas, see Asset and Authoritarian.
