#appalling

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment. ↗

— Peter Singer

#buying #consequences #consumer #doing #family

There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling. ↗

— Ione Skye

#conservative #i #just #kids #private

A female friend who caught me watching Fashion TV reckons its audience is largely made up of slobbering men who are just taking a break from the appalling Men & Motors channel. I don't agree. ↗

— Arthur Smith

#amp #appalling #audience #break #caught

These irresponsible acts, which cannot have any justification whatsoever, are to be fully condemned. In these appalling circumstances, I want to offer you the most sincere condolences, both in my name and in that of the French people. ↗

— Jacques Chirac

#any #appalling #both #cannot #circumstances

It was both fascinating and appalling to learn that chimpanzees were capable of hostile and territorial behavior that was not unlike certain forms of primitive human warfare. ↗

— Jane Goodall

#behavior #both #capable #certain #fascinating

The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there. ↗

— Herman Gorter

#conditions #different #here #often #peasant

And who is responsible for this appalling child slavery? Everyone. ↗

— Mary Harris Jones

#child #everyone #responsible #slavery #who

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime. ↗

— Arthur Miller

#appalling #died #end #i #lifetime

When I want to render these fine nuances, I do not find them in the subject, but in the nature of women in real life who seek unhealthy emotions and are too stupid even to understand the horror in the most appalling situations. ↗

— Gustave Moreau

#emotions #even #find #fine #horror

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#appalling #everybody #everything #greed #needs