#standards

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

While Taliban fighters had an initial claim to protection under the conventions, they lost POW status by failing to obey the standards of conduct for legal combatants: wearing uniforms, a responsible command structure, and obeying the laws of war. ↗

— John Yoo

#combatants #command #conduct #conventions #failing

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right. ↗

— Roger Goodell

#conduct #everyone #highest #highest standards #met

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence. ↗

— Billy Graham

#continue #disclosure #ethics #evangelists #financial

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#enforcing #feet #fire #first #first of all

Instead of destroying an area for a paltry amount of oil, we should be increasing fuel standards for automobiles and focusing our efforts on biofuels and other alternatives. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#amount #area #automobiles #destroying #efforts

Let's not be afraid to speak the common sense truth: you can't have high standards without good discipline. ↗

— William Hague

#common #common sense #discipline #good #high

I don't deny that there are problems in the intelligence world, but I would argue that in the UK we try to uphold the highest standards in the world. ↗

— William Hague

#deny #highest #highest standards #i #intelligence

We should insist that governments receiving American aid live up to standards of accountability and transparency, and we should support countries that embrace market reforms, democracy, and the rule of law. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

#aid #american #countries #democracy #embrace

Intelligent policies will be largely self-regulating in the sense that the system of incentives and standards makes it absolutely ludicrous to not move towards clean, internalized systems of cost and production. ↗

— Paul Hawken

#clean #cost #incentives #intelligent #internalized