Paul Rust

The challenge in writing a show that's about people and their flaws is that it can easily tip over - okay, I'll sometimes watch something, and there will be characters that are written in a way that I'll know that the writer just hates human beings. They're expressing this misanthropic point of view with these detestable characters.

American Actor

Xun Kuang

When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.

Chinese Philosopher

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

I find mirrors detestable; I dislike seeing myself. Of course, there's a mirror in the bathroom, but it's a magnifying one for shaving. Photographs are fine, but I don't like mirrors because they take you by surprise.

Belgian Dramatist

Megan Phelps-Roper

Loving someone whose ideas we find detestable can seem impossible, and empathizing with them isn't much easier - but it's so important to remember that listening is not agreeing.

American Activist

Jakaya Kikwete

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

Tanzanian Politician

Jason Priestley

I feel like acts of violence against women are detestable, and they need to be dealt with, and they are important.

Canadian Actor

Henry Ward Beecher

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

American Clergyman

Eugene Ionesco

Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois.

French Dramatist

Romain Rolland

I find war detestable but those who praise it without participating in it even more so.

French Novelist

Maurice Druon

Anarchy is as detestable in grammar as it is in society.

Use 'detestable' to express strong negative emotions toward something or someone.

Emotionally Charged

'Detestable' shows a greater level of dislike than simply saying 'bad' or 'unpleasant'.

Intensity

'Detestable' often implies a moral or ethical condemnation of the subject.

Moral Judgment

 which helped people express their thoughts in very critical moments all these innovative ways of turning emotions into art into humor into protest made detestable moments bearable