Reprehensible 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."

(on the administration of President George Bush and its invasion of Iraq) "For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that (this) administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that`s reprehensible. I don`t think, like many of us, that the reasons we have been given for going to war are the honest reasons. If they are saying it`s about the fact they have biological weapons and might have nuclear weapons and that gives us the liberty to pre-empt and strike because we think they might hit us, then what prevents Pakistan from attacking India, what prevents India from attacking Pakistan, what prevents us from going into North Korea? I believe--though I may wrong because I am no expert--that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil."

For me as an American, the most painful aspect of this is that I believe that that administration has taken the events of 9/11 and has manipulated the grief of the country and I think that`s reprehensible.

My God would find this morally reprehensible to kill these deer because they eat someone`s rosebuds.

(That`s what former education secretary and drug czar Bill Bennett did last Wednesday on his radio show . When a caller suggested that legal abortions had depleted the tax base for Social Security, Bennett counseled against such utilitarian arguments.) I do know that it`s true that if you wanted to reduce crime, you could'”if that were your sole purpose'”you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down, ... That would be an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do, but your crime rate would go down. So these far-out, these far-reaching, extensive extrapolations are, I think, tricky.

It is reprehensible that some elected officials are looking to score political points in the wake of Hurricane Katrina`s devastation.

I don`t think that normal, healthy people are wired to understand this kind of reprehensible conduct.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he`s not an irrational man. He`s a very worthy enemy. He`s an enemy to worry about.

Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible.

It is certain, indeed, that the sacred writers were apt to make great allowances for people with empty stomachs, and though I am well aware that the present profane ones think this very reprehensible, I venture to agree with the sacred writers.

Some of my instincts are reprehensible.

Autobiography is now as common as adultery, and hardly less reprehensible.