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They shall be an abomination to you; you must not eat their meat, and you must detest their carcasses.
- Leviticus 11:11
Additionally, you are to detest the following birds, and they must not be eaten because they are detestable: the eagle, the bearded vulture, the black vulture,
- Leviticus 11:13
Do I not hate those who hate You, O LORD, and detest those who rise against You?
- Psalm 139:21
The LORD detests the way of the wicked, but He loves those who pursue righteousness.
- Proverbs 15:9
“I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies.
- Amos 5:21
The Lord GOD has sworn by Himself—the LORD, the God of Hosts, has declared: “I abhor Jacob’s pride and detest his citadels, so I will deliver up the city and everything in it.”
- Amos 6:8
Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon, than the word of God. It is a history of wickedness, that has served to corrupt and brutalize mankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it, as I detest everything that is cruel.
- Thomas Paine
Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.
- Virginia Woolf
The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky
I dont like animals. Its a strange thing, I dont like men and I dont like animals. As for God, he is beginning to disgust me.
- Samuel Beckett
Jane Austen makes me detest all her characters, without reserve. Is that her intention? It is not believable. Then is it her purpose to make the reader detest her characters up to the middle of the book and like them in the rest of the chapters? That could be. That would be high art. It would be worthwhile, too. Some day I might examine the other end of her books and see.
- Mark Twain
The passenger wondered when it was that he had first begun to detest laughter like a bad smell.
- Graham Greene