“Revolution suspends habit as well as law. But just as nature abhors a vacuum, people abhor anarchy.”
Source: Green Mars (1993), Chapter 10, “Phase Change” (p. 579)
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“Nature abhors a vacuum, and I don’t like it much either.”
Source: Mindswap (1966), Chapter 32 (p. 153)

United Nations General Assembly - Promotion of a democratic and equitable international order http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/IntOrder/A-68-284_en.pdf.
2013

1940s–present, A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949)

“T' abhor the makers, and their laws approve,
Is to hate traitors and the treason love.”
Pt. III, lines 706–707.
The Hind and the Panther (1687)

“Nature abhors the old, and old age seems the only disease; all others run into this one.”
1840s, Essays: First Series (1841), Circles

Slaves of Time (p. 18)
Short fiction, The Robot Who Looked Like Me (1978)
“Nature abhors imperfect work
And on it lays her ban;
And all creation must despise
A tailless man.”
Prehistoric Smith, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Calcutta has still not recovered from history: people mourn the past, and abhor it deeply.”
Calcutta: Two Years in The City (2013)