Standards Quotes & Sayings
These famous standards quotes and standards sayings from our inspirational words of wisdom collection.We should cease to talk about vague and unreal objectives such as human rights, the raising of the living standards, and democratisation. The day is not far off when we are going to have to deal in straight power concepts. The less we are then hampered by idealistic slogans, the better. - George Frost Kennan
It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that hold the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others. - Orison Swett Marden
Where humour is concerned there are no standards, no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will. - John Kenneth Galbraith
A society like ours, which professes no one religion and has allowed all religions to decay, which indulges freedom to the point of license and individualism to the point of anarchy, needs all the support that responsible, cultivated homes can furnish. I hope your generation will provide a firmer shelter for civilized standards. - Alan Kooi Simpson
States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions. - Noam Chomsky
People are very inclined to set moral standards for others. - Elizabeth Drew
The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him, and that the many were neither perverted nor sadistic, that they were, and still are, terribly and terrifyingly normal. From the viewpoint of our legal institutions and of our moral standards of judgment, this normality was much more terrifying than all the atrocities put together. - Hannah Arendt
If I were starting life over again, I am inclined to think that I would go into the advertising business in preference to almost any other. The general raising of the standards of modern civilization among all groups of people during the past half century would have been impossible without the spreading of the knowledge of higher standards by means of advertising. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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