#standard

Obama is making a choice now that will lead to the deaths of many thousands of civilians in Afghanistan by American hands. By ordinary standards of presidents, he is a decent man. But those standards aren't good enough. He's in a position either to kill or not to kill, and he's made the decision to kill. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#american #choice #civilians #deaths #decent

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#disposition #improve #preserve #standard #statesman

States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#impose #institutions #moral #people #powerful

We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#banquet #century #done #head #living

I think the world would be a lot better off if more people were to define themselves in terms of their own standards and values and not what other people said or thought about them. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#better #better off #define #i #i think

You know, I think of the global economy as an inverted triangle, resting on the shoulders of the American consumer. And if the American consumer cannot have enough disposable income in order to maintain a standard of living that creates more opportunities generation after generation, that's bad for everybody. ↗

— Hillary Clinton

#american #american consumer #bad #cannot #consumer

Words are important to me, but a song can work and function and be a good song with words that are fairly standard. But really great lyrics can't rescue a dog of a song. ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#fairly #function #good #good song #great

Cultural dominance of middle-class norms prevail in middle-class schools with a teacher teaching toward those standards and with students striving to maintain those standards. ↗

— James S. Coleman

#dominance #maintain #middle-class #norms #prevail

Words without deeds violates the moral and legal obligation we have under the genocide convention but, more importantly, violates our sense of right and wrong and the standards we have as human beings about looking to care for one another. ↗

— Jon Corzine

#another #beings #care #convention #deeds