Refrain from doing ill; for one all powerful reason, lest our children should copy our misdeeds; we are all too prone to imitate whatever is base and depraved. — Juvenal
Whatever you condemn, you have done yourself. — Georg Groddeck
It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts. — Mahatma Gandhi
A mistake is always forgivable, rarely excusable and always unacceptable. — Robert Fripp
Contempt; the feeling of a prudent man for an enemy who is too formidable safely to be opposed. — Ambrose Bierce
True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat. — F. H. Bradley
Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit. — Seneca The Elder
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. — Ogden Nash
Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it. — Plato
If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn. — Friedrich Nietzsche
There are some things that are so unforgivable that they make other things easily forgivable. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Short Reprehensible Quotes
The NCAA is probably the most reprehensible organization God ever created. — Jim Brown
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American. — Cedric Richmond
Autobiography is now as common as adultery and hardly less reprehensible. — John Grigg
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. — Nicholas D. Kristof
I've always loved reprehensible people because they're so much more interesting to play on screen. — Michael Caine
Applying the axioms of physical science to human life has something reprehensible to it. — Albert Einstein
Indifference of every kind is reprehensible, even indifference towards one's self. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Find the video that has been so offensive to Muslims to be disgusting and reprehensible. — Jay Carney
I find revealing the secrets of magic quite reprehensible. — David Copperfield
Sarcastic Quotes
If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I would be happy to do it for you. — Groucho Marx
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed! — William Shakespeare
I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks? — George Carlin
In America, anyone can become president. That's the problem. — George Carlin
What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself. — Anton Chekhov
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well. — Mark Twain
If the black box flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn’t the whole airplane made out of that stuff? — George Carlin
Have you noticed that all the people in favor of birth control are already born? — Benny Hill
To exclude groups of people because of their faith, this isn't worthy of the free state in which we live. It isn't compatible with our essential values. And its humanly reprehensible, xenophobia, racism, extremism have no place here. We are fighting to ensure that they don't have a place elsewhere either. — Angela Merkel
What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice. — Saint Augustine
The news media's silence, particularly television news, is reprehensible. If we knew as much about Darfur as we do about Michael Jackson, we might be able to stop these things from continuing. — Nicholas D. Kristof
For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible. — Arthur Schopenhauer
Corruption is uniquely reprehensible in a democracy because it violates the system's first principle, which we all learned back in the sunshiny days of elementary school: that the government exist to serve the public, not particular companies or individuals or even elected officials. — Thomas Frank
Show me a person without prejudice of any kind on any subject and I'll show you someone who may be admirably virtuous but is surely no gardener. Prejudice against people is reprehensible, but a healthy set of prejudices is a gardener's best friend. Gardening is complicated, and prejudice simplifies it enormously. — Allen Lacy
I am now convinced that children should not be subjected to the frightfulness of the Christian religion [...]. If the concept of a father who plots to have his own son put to death is presented to children as beautiful and as worthy of society's admiration, what types of human behavior can be presented to them as reprehensible? — Ruth Hurmence Green
Youth must refrain from ungrateful questioning of governmental mandates. Instead they must dedicate themselves to study, work and military service. The very spirit of rebellion is reprehensible. — Che Guevara
Jealousy is one of the wickedest of all the passions. It is that which has been the most fruitful mother of tragedies, murders, and wars. But reprehensible though it is, jealousy is almost rather to be pitied than blamed--its first victims are those who harbour the feeling. — Arthur Alfred Lynch
I hope his wife feeds him [Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court] lots of eggs and butter and he dies early like many black men do, of heart disease. . . . He is an absolutely reprehensible person. — Julianne Malveaux
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. — James Payn
The conflict of chemistry we do not think reprehensible. If we could look at social conflict as neither good nor bad, but simply a fact, we should make great strides in our thinking. — Mary Parker Follett
Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension. — Aristotle
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. — Moby
If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along. — James L. Buckley
If you know something is morally reprehensible, then it is your moral obligation to stop it as soon as possible. — Jane Velez-Mitchell
It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension. — Plutarch
Belief is involuntary; nothing involuntary is meritorious or reprehensible. A man ought not to be considered worse or better for his belief. — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Trans Pacific Partnership (and fast-track authority to whisk it through Congress without debate) is fast approaching. If you haven't seen our video about it, please watch. If you have, please share. And mobilize and organize friends and colleagues to call their senators and representatives to tell them to vote against this reprehensible deal. — Robert Reich
While sincerity and over-anxiety can spoil a picture, through superfluous elaboration and unnecessary correction, the carelessness that would leave it in an unfinished state is even more reprehensible. — Walter J. Phillips
Most readers, then and now, have at some time experienced the humiliation of being told that their occupation is reprehensible. — Alberto Manguel
Within hours of a tragedy unfolding, journalists and pundits should not manufacture a blood libel that serves only to incite the very hatred and violence they purport to condemn. That is reprehensible. — Sarah Palin
For years I supported capital punishment, but I have come to believe that our criminal justice system is incapable of adequately distinguishing between the innocent and guilty. It is reprehensible and immoral to gamble with life and death. — James Frey
Senator Kerry voted to undermine the troops in the field, and that is not only inexcusable, it is reprehensible. — John Ensign
Confronted by a Church that has ceased to manifest God's mercy and intimate connection with humankind - that has converted Christ into a grim and joyless adjunct to the policing of bedrooms and marital intercourse - men and women can no longer see themselves as beloved of God, only as impure and reprehensible. — Uta Ranke-Heinemann
The belief in eternal torment, still subscribed to by fundamentalist Christian denominations, undoubtedly ranks as the most vicious and reprehensible doctrine of classical Christianity. It has resulted in an incalculable amount of psychological torture, especially among children where it is employed as a terror tactic to prompt obedience. — George H. Smith
One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love. — Wayne Dyer
A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous. — James Gibbons
Age, that acquaints us with infirmities in ourselves, should make us tender in our reprehension of weakness elsewhere. — Christian Nestell Bovee
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. — Dustin Hoffman
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. — Michael Scheuer
Kathleen Wynne and her band of radical-left cronies think they have a handle on what constitutes human identity and also what should constitute human morality. And I think that that's being pushed in a manner in schools that's completely reprehensible. It's not education, in my estimation. It's a form of indoctrination. — Jordan Peterson
Free speech is not just free speech for people you admire. It's also for people who you think of as reprehensible. — Salman Rushdie
[The immigrant] becomes a kind of insurance policy against the effects of the recession. By blaming him, the pressure valve is regulated in times of crisis ... What we have now is a public mindset of us versus them, and an overall anti-immigrant climate that is both troubling and morally reprehensible. — Andrew Lam
You truly need to witness me goo-gooing and coo-cooing and making up goofy little songs to glean a full appreciation of how nauseating I can be. This is another instance where things seemingly don't add up - how can this vile, hateful, violent, misogynist, racist, loathsome, repugnant, worthless, reprehensible subhuman be so insanely tender and kind to little doggies and kitty-cats? — Jim Goad
Anderson [Cooper]first of all, in case anybody's wondering because they'll somehow read my mind after this broadcast ... I find those comments to be disgusting and reprehensible, and I'm really glad that he apologized. — Anderson Cooper
The critique of social inequality, which is very much a part of my story, came about naturally from my recollection of Huck and Tom and the controversy surrounding [Mark] Twain's use of them and from my own passionate interest in civil rights, animal rights, and the right of Earth to survive humankind's reprehensible neglect of its stewardship. — Norman Lock
Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart. — Napoleon Bonaparte
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