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There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice. – Simone Weil	added by Normando 7 months ago
Our mission is clear: diplomatically, politically, economically and eventually militarily, this hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure. – Boris Johnson	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
For hate to be distributed like that in our neighborhood, was just shocking, to say the least, we couldn't believe it, here( in) 2022, here in Surfside. This is absolutely hideous. – Joseph Waks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
We couldn't believe it, here( in) 2022, here in Surfside. This is absolutely hideous. – Joseph Waks	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Similarly, there continues to be a hideous torrent of abuse towards trans people online and out in the world that is devastating. – Eddie Redmayne	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
The radio makes hideous sounds. – Bob Dylan	added by RobertHaigh 4 years ago
Ghislaine Maxwell is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life, i mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was, like it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey Epstein of sex crimes and Ghislaine Maxwell would have expected from me. – Virginia Roberts Giuffre	Found on CNN 5 years ago
In the midst of such profound anguish, one memory fills us with hope, when evil showed its hideous face, Americans of all walks of life rose up -- and they did, they rose up -- they defied fear, they stared down death to protect the innocent. And stand tall they did just for righteous and for good. – Donald Trump	Found on CNN 5 years ago
I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley	added by lofreire 5 years ago
Standing on the summit of Xtreme Everest is the most beautiful and the most hideous experience of my life. – Ben Fogle	Found on CNN 6 years ago
Apart from the hideous racial trolling that we’ve seen… I think that’s a minority… I think they’re going to be widely accepted. – Leslie Carroll	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It was hideous, the lucky families were the ones living in 30-foot FEMA trailers with six or seven other people. – Zack Rosenburg	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable. – Zeid Raad al-Hussein	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them. – Desiderius Erasmus	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Killing innocent civilians is a horrific, hideous act that no religion can approve – Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it. – Finley Peter Dunne	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion. – Stendhal	added by anonymous 11 years ago
The more dirty, hideous people you meet, the more your thrashing gains. My thrashing is my pride in such days".. – The wise Pharoah Moe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
Non-political conclusion- Egypt: Those days following the catastroph 25th of January, my philosophy about the abstract meanings of humanity and life have been amended, that I observed how much of hideous dirt exists deep inside the Egyptian individuals, that such days immensly braught it up to the surface.. – The wise Pharoah Moe	added by anonymous 12 years ago
One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away. – D. H. Lawrence	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. – George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman	added by anonymous 14 years ago
When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. – C. P. Snow	added by anonymous 15 years ago
The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered. – Felix Adler	added by anonymous 15 years ago
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. – Dave Barry	added by anonymous 15 years ago

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime - namely, repressive justice.

– Simone Weil

added by Normando
7 months ago

Our mission is clear: diplomatically, politically, economically and eventually militarily, this hideous and barbaric venture of Vladimir Putin must end in failure.

– Boris Johnson

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

For hate to be distributed like that in our neighborhood, was just shocking, to say the least, we couldn't believe it, here( in) 2022, here in Surfside. This is absolutely hideous.

– Joseph Waks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

We couldn't believe it, here( in) 2022, here in Surfside. This is absolutely hideous.

– Joseph Waks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

– Eddie Redmayne

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

The radio makes hideous sounds.

– Bob Dylan

added by RobertHaigh
4 years ago

Ghislaine Maxwell is the most hideous dancer I've ever seen in my life, i mean it was horrible and this guy was sweating all over me, like his sweat was, like it was raining basically everywhere, I was just like grossed out from it but I knew I had to keep him happy because that's what Jeffrey Epstein of sex crimes and Ghislaine Maxwell would have expected from me.

– Virginia Roberts Giuffre

Found on CNN
5 years ago

In the midst of such profound anguish, one memory fills us with hope, when evil showed its hideous face, Americans of all walks of life rose up -- and they did, they rose up -- they defied fear, they stared down death to protect the innocent. And stand tall they did just for righteous and for good.

– Donald Trump

Found on CNN
5 years ago

I saw—with shut eyes, but acute mental vision—I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion. Frightful must it be, for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

added by lofreire
5 years ago

Standing on the summit of Xtreme Everest is the most beautiful and the most hideous experience of my life.

– Ben Fogle

Found on CNN
6 years ago

Apart from the hideous racial trolling that we’ve seen… I think that’s a minority… I think they’re going to be widely accepted.

– Leslie Carroll

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It was hideous, the lucky families were the ones living in 30-foot FEMA trailers with six or seven other people.

– Zack Rosenburg

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

The notion of ghost ships drifting on autopilot toward the coasts of Europe in the hopes that coast guards will rescue the people on board and the hideous sight of men and women tearing their flesh on barbed-wire fences in a desperate, and sometimes lethal, attempt to clamber into Europe and find a better, more peaceful life: Such scenes are simply intolerable.

– Zeid Raad al-Hussein

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

They take unbelievable pleasure in the hideous blast of the hunting horn and baying of the hounds. Dogs dung smells sweet as cinnamon to them.

– Desiderius Erasmus

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Killing innocent civilians is a horrific, hideous act that no religion can approve

– Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Vice is a creature of such hideous mien... that the more you see it the better you like it.

– Finley Peter Dunne

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.

– Stendhal

added by anonymous
11 years ago

The more dirty, hideous people you meet, the more your thrashing gains. My thrashing is my pride in such days"..

– The wise Pharoah Moe

added by anonymous
12 years ago

Non-political conclusion- Egypt: Those days following the catastroph 25th of January, my philosophy about the abstract meanings of humanity and life have been amended, that I observed how much of hideous dirt exists deep inside the Egyptian individuals, that such days immensly braught it up to the surface..

– The wise Pharoah Moe

added by anonymous
12 years ago

One watches them on the seashore, all the people, and there is something pathetic, almost wistful in them, as if they wished their lives did not add up to this scaly nullity of possession, but as if they could not escape. It is a dragon that has devoured us all: these obscene, scaly houses, this insatiable struggle and desire to possess, to possess always and in spite of everything, this need to be an owner, lest one be owned. It is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease. One feels a sort of madness come over one, as if the world had become hell. But it is only superimposed: it is only a temporary disease. It can be cleaned away.

– D. H. Lawrence

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

– George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

added by anonymous
14 years ago

When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.

– C. P. Snow

added by anonymous
15 years ago

The conception of worth, that each person is an end per se, is not a mere abstraction. Our interest in it is not merely academic. Every outcry against the oppression of some people by other people, or against what is morally hideous is the affirmation of the principle that a human being as such is not to be violated. A human being is not to be handled as a tool but is to be respected and revered.

– Felix Adler

added by anonymous
15 years ago

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.

– Dave Barry

added by anonymous
15 years ago

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