#standard

Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#emancipation #enabled #ended #hereditary #living

In addition to fines, violators of decency standards could be required to air public service announcements serving educational and informational needs of children. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

#air #announcements #children #could #decency

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#become #had #i #myself #out

People rightly want our political leaders - on all sides - to concentrate on minimising the damage to jobs, living standards and our savings from the banking crisis. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#concentrate #crisis #damage #jobs #leaders

By many peoples' standards, my playing is very primitive but by punk standards, I'm a virtuoso. ↗

— Robert Quine

#many #playing #primitive #punk #standards

I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great. ↗

— Ted Rall

#book #good #great #great book #here

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. ↗

— Joseph Ratzinger

#appropriate #cannot #church #civil #civil society

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm. ↗

— David Rockefeller

#apparent #being #eldest #every #father

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. ↗

— Carl Rogers

#creative #essence #hence #judge #novelty

You can take a school like the University of Colorado, with a selective admission standard. It has a better caliber student going in, so you ought to have a better caliber coming out. ↗

— Roy Romer

#better #caliber #colorado #coming #going