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#standards

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For the powerful, crimes are those that others commit.


Noam Chomsky


#double-standards #hypocrisy #politics #power #war-crimes

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or a quality of life that's far below what you deserve.


Anthony Robbins


#attitude

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

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

In 1973, the Supreme Court ruled that individual communities should set obscenity standards. Whenever a case is tried, it will be based on a community standard for that particular place.


Larry Flynt


#case #communities #community #court #individual

Well, by the standards of a lot of countries, by Latin American standards, it wasn't so bad.


Paul A. Volcker


#bad #countries #latin #latin american #lot

A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.


Virginia Woolf


#dignity #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism






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