Knowingly Quotes

"If you look at the course of western history you`ll see that we`re slowly granting basic rights to everyone. A long time ago only kings had rights. Then rights were extended to property-owning white men. Then all men. Then women. Then children. Then the mentally retarded. Now we`re agonizing over the extension of basic rights to homosexuals and animals. We need to finally accept that all sentient creatures are deserving of basic rights. I define basic rights as this --the ability to pursue life without having someone else`s will involuntarily forced upon you. Or, as the framers of the constitution put it, the ability to have "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". By what criteria can you justify denying basic rights to any living thing? Realize that by whatever criteria you employ someone could deny basic rights to you if they objected to your species, sexual preferences, color, religion, ideology etc. Would you eat your housecat, or force a mentally retarded child to ingest oven cleaner? If not, then why is it ok to eat cows and test products on sentient animals? I believe that to knowingly commit actions that cause or condone suffering is reprehensible in the extreme.I call upon you to be compassionate and treat others as you want to be treated. If you don`t want to be beaten, imprisoned, mutilated, killed or tortured then you shouldn`t condone such behavior towards anyone, be they human or not."

I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations.

They were knowingly false, your honor.

I don`t know what sex appeal is. I don`t think you can have sex appeal knowingly. The people who seduce me personally are the people who seem not to know they`re seductive, and not to know they have sex appeal.

It`s when they knowingly and willfully don`t do what we ask them to do and the horses actually start to fall down and die, that`s when we treat it like a criminal case.

It takes a certain kind of person to be willing to knowingly jeopardize their own life to help someone they don`t even know. In that time of emergency, the firemen, police and everyday people going down the street became heroes.

No one will find me to have knowingly committed fraud.

Mr. Luskin also says that Rove did not knowingly disclose classified information and did not tell any reporters that Valerie Plame worked for the C.I.A.

We didn`t push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.

There is absolutely no evidence that the president knowingly misled the American people,

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

It`s just hard to imagine President Bush, knowing this woman as well as he claims to know her, would knowingly put someone (on the court) who would go wobbly down the road.

There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.