Quotes About Standards

In a perfect world the current laws would not apply.

All women are beautiful; it's society who's ugly.

some products should just be kept out of the marketplace.

in the absence of international coordination those rules might be inconsistent with U.S. standards,

Moreover, even if foreign jurisdictions adopted comparably tough rules, in the absence of international coordination those rules might be inconsistent with U.S. standards,

No picture should lower the moral standards of those who see it.

Hypocrisy as humor pushes destruction of standards.

The Hays Code stated: "When right standards are consistently presented, the motion picture exercises the most powerful influences. It builds character, develops right ideals, inculcates correct principles, and all this in attractive story form. If motion pictures consistently hold up for admiration high types of characters and present stories that will affect lives for the better, they can become the most powerful force for the improvement of mankind.

That's how social standards work for the left: If you have the right politics, you can get away with anything. If you have the wrong ones, it'll ignore its own hypocrisy to nail you to the wall.

The universities have instituted a new right: the right not to be offended. When tolerance of every sort of behavior reigns, those who believe in standards and rules are destined for castigation.

When asked which statement about ethics their professors most often voiced, 73 percent picked: "what is right and wrong depends on differences in individual values and cultural diversity." Only 25 percent of the students selected the option reading: "there are clear and uniform standards of right and wrong by which everyone should be judged.

Accountability measures allow administrators to require the faculty to "teach to the test," rather than devise the curriculum according to its own judgment. In this way, college professors can be reduced to the same subordinate status to which elementary and secondary school teachers have already been relegated.

The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.

In a woman whose chief capital is her beauty, to be forty is a crime against society.

Education reform has as its main purpose to make sure that the education delivered is of quality.

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.

If critics were harder on the musicians that they love, there would be better songs. But as they grow older and they lose their talent, critics refuse to let them know that and protect them, and they get to the point where they put out music that just isn't up to the levels where they've already been.

I absolutely refused to make out with the gorgeous male model.

I'd love to have written a film and it to be regarded as good. I'd just like to be doing things that are good, really. I think that's all you can aim for. I find it odd when actors say they just want to do films or plays or television. A lot of films aren't very good; a lot of television isn't very good; a lot of plays aren't very good.

I always feel I need to do well regardless of the level of the band.

I got to a point where I wanted to have some dignity in what I'm saying onstage. I want people to hear what I'm saying, regardless of whether or not it gets a laugh. That became a lot more rewarding than straight acting could ever be for me.

There's a pressure regardless of that to do a good show.

The implication of AKC registration is that a dog who has it is better than a dog who hasn't.

If you compromise and hire someone mediocre, you will always regret it.