Repulsion Quotes

Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.

In Italy, on the breaking up of the Roman Empire, society might be said to be resolved into its original elements, - into hostile atoms, whose only movement was that of mutual repulsion.

I've always had a repulsion going in a place where animals are in captivity.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him.