#appalling

The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#basic #day #decline #each #economic

The Butcher Boy is a very great novel indeed and a very important Irish novel. The ambiguity of that is, he's writing a book about an appalling situation and he does it in a hilarious way. ↗

— Stephen Rea

#ambiguity #appalling #book #boy #butcher

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste. ↗

— Elton John

#dying #going #hiv #infection #people

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

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

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

— Mary Harris Jones

#child #everyone #responsible #slavery #who

It is idle to say that nations can struggle to outdo each other in building armaments and never use them. History demonstrates the contrary, and we have but to go back to the last war to see the appalling effect of nations competing in great armaments. ↗

— Frank B. Kellogg

#armaments #back #building #competing #contrary

The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling. ↗

— Charles Moore

#always #any #appalling #back #basic

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief. ↗

— John Howard

#because #belief #beyond #could #executed

Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor. ↗

— Terrence Howard

#apprehensive #humor #make #only #palatable