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

If you destroyed the underpinnings of this great American sport, you are a hated, ugly, detestable person.
Curt Flood

Much melancholy has devolved upon mankind, and it is detestable to me that might will triumph in the end.
Karel Capek

Nothing can atone for the lack of modesty; without which beauty is ungraceful and wit detestable.
Richard Steele

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

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.
Charles Bukowski

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.
Xun Zi

When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
Xun Zi