#monstrous

There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. ↗

— Lord Acton

#among #defenders #error #fails #find

Disco was brand new then and there were a few jocks that had monstrous sound systems but they wouldn't dare play this kind of music. They would never play a record where only two minutes of the song was all it was worth. They wouldn't buy those types of records. ↗

— Grandmaster Flash

#brand new #buy #dare #disco #few

A murderer is regarded by the conventional world as something almost monstrous, but a murderer to himself is only an ordinary man. It is only if the murderer is a good man that he can be regarded as monstrous. ↗

— Graham Greene

#almost #conventional #good #good man #himself

I cannot imagine a context that would some day, in some manner, make the monstrous crime of September 11 an understandable or comprehensible political act. ↗

— Jurgen Habermas

#cannot #comprehensible #context #crime #day

The architect, Peter Arens who is the monstrous carbuncle architect, not merely did his design which had won a public competition never get built but his practice suffered financially for some years. ↗

— Anthony Holden

#built #competition #design #did #financially

I am a terrible mixture of being organized, controlling, but chaotic. My desk is monstrous. ↗

— Elizabeth Hurley

#being #chaotic #controlling #desk #i

The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#beings #condemned #conventions #fact #human

What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#absurd #another #blood #cold #men

What's happened at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq is one of the grossest violations of human rights under the Geneva Conventions that we have record of. It is simply monstrous. ↗

— Carlos Fuentes

#conventions #geneva #ghraib #happened #human

New York is something awful, something monstrous. I like to walk the streets, lost, but I recognize that New York is the world's greatest lie. New York is Senegal with machines. ↗

— Federico Garcia Lorca

#greatest #i #lie #like #lost