Quotes About Standards

It's not fair that women look in the mirror and feel disgust because of what society has made them believe.

It is difficult to age because society won't let you. People expect you to look how you did at the height of your fame.

You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.

If we didn't live in a society that told us we're not OK if we're not making 100 grand a year, I think we'd all be a lot happier.

Society is going to judge you no matter what you do.

The government has a responsibility to protect society, to help maintain society. That's why we have laws... The rule of law creates a set of standards for our behavior.

Moral certainty, clear standards, and a commitment to spiritual ideals will set you apart in a world that searches for meaning.

Good is not good when better is expected.

I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

The only thing that keeps this organization from being recognized as one of the finest in baseball is wins and losses at the major league level.

The Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue really sets the social standard for what people expect the perfect woman's body to look like, and a lot of those bodies usually look the same.

If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world.

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

During a bubble, we often hear stories about how some grand new era makes previous valuation standards obsolete.

Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him.

Knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy, dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth.

We have emerged from a war in which we had to accept the degradingly low ethical standards of the enemy. But instead of feeling liberated from his standards, and set free to restore the sanctity of human life and the safety of noncombatants, we are in effect making the low standards of the enemy in the last war our own for the present. Thus we are starting toward another war degraded by our own choice.

I believe that the abominable deterioration of ethical standards stems primarily from the mechanization and depersonalization of our lives, a disastrous byproduct of science and technology. Nostra culpa!" Einstein wrote in a letter to his friend, psychiatrist Otto Juliusburger, in 1948

Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society, nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative personalities able to think and judge independently, the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community.

Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hard-working, goods-consuming citizen he's perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he was degraded. But you've got to stick to one set of postulates. You can't play Electro-magnetic Golf according to rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- they can be scumbags to women and still get away with it because they're good-looking. Being ugly is a kind of prisoner.

Those who stand for nothing fall for everything.

It was a warm evening, at least by the standards applied in Scotland, where summer is sometimes no more than a promise, an aspiration

In fact, none of us knows how he ever managed to get his LLB in the first place. Maybe they're putting law degrees in cornflakes boxes these days.