“Rape is highly reprehensible, both in a moral sense and in its almost total contempt for the personal integrity and autonomy of the female victim and for the latter's privilege of choosing those with whom intimate relations are to be established.”
Byron R. White
“It is of course, reprehensible to steal from others, but plain stupid to steal from yourself”
Peter Ustinov
“Some of my instincts are reprehensible.”
William F. Buckley Jr.
“an impossible, ridiculous and morally reprehensible thing to do.”
William Bennett
“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.”
“The fact that Mr. Bennett later acknowledged that such abortions would be 'morally reprehensible,' but added again that if it was done 'the crime rate would go down,' is equally outrageous,”
John Conyers
“I was putting forward a hypothetical proposition ... and then said about it, it was morally reprehensible to recommend abortion of an entire group of people.”