#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

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

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

No one talked about the fact that in this year under the Obama administration you've seen the highest casualties in Afghanistan. And the fact that it took him almost 90 days to figure out what his strategy is going to be was absolutely appalling. ↗

— Allen West

#absolutely #administration #afghanistan #almost #appalling

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. ↗

— Sheila Jackson Lee

#appalling #failure #majority #measure #record

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

The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and good, and not tawdry and ostentatious. ↗

— Giles Gilbert Scott

#anxious #appalling #artistic #catholic #catholic church

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine. ↗

— Carrie P. Snow

#appalling #control #desirable #doing #fact

Never judge someone by who he's in love with; judge him by his friends. People fall in love with the most appalling people. Take a cool, appraising glance at his pals. ↗

— Cynthia Heimel

#cool #fall #friends #glance #him

The violence in the Bible is appalling. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#bible #violence