#standards

Those who plead their cause in the absence of an opponent can invent to their heart's content, can pontificate without taking into account the opposite point of view and keep the best arguments for themselves, for aggressors are always quick to attack those who have no means of defence. ↗

— Christine de Pizan

#deceit #defenselessness #double-standards #falsehood #hypocrisy

God is the only being who is good, and the standards are set by Him. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that's not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards. ↗

— Francis Chan

#crazy-love #francis-chan #sin #standards #love

Retiring for good wasn't difficult. I knew at the time it was right. I was no longer capable of achieving the standards I'd set myself and there was no light at the end of the tunnel. ↗

— Ian Botham

#capable #difficult #end #end of the tunnel #good

Let there be great enthusiasm for the plan throughout the entire republic that will overcome all obstacles. Let us join together to realize the Five Year Plan and bring our economy and our own living standards to previously unknown heights. ↗

— Walter Ulbricht

#economy #enthusiasm #entire #five #great

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

— Noam Chomsky

#impose #institutions #moral #people #powerful

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

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

We fully expect our competitors to join us in embracing open standards with their next redesigns. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#embracing #expect #fully #join #next

For the tiny percentage of people who are negatively affected by our embracing of standards, they can just get their sports somewhere else in the meantime. It's not like we're denying them hospital care. ↗

— Mike Davidson

#care #denying #else #embracing #get