Quotes About Standards

normative ethics refers to the discipline that produces moral norms or rules as its end product.

Like every other hypocrite alive, he was very good at applying unyielding standards to others. Bozic

In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.

But you weren't born expecting that kind of beauty in everyone, all the time. You just got programmed into thinking anything else is ugly.

Like an artist, or like anybody else who believes that his work justifies his life, Sassall – by our society's miserable standards – is a fortunate man.

Thus, appraisal is a complex process in which two main steps can be distinguished: (a) comparing input with standards that have developed within the organism during its lifetime; (b) selecting certain general forms of behaviour in preference to other forms in accordance with the results of comparisons previously made.

When individuals are shamed so remorselessly and unforgivingly that they become outcasts, or even begin to think of themselves as outcasts it becomes more rewarding to associate with others who are perceived in some limited or total way as also at odds with mainstream standards.

We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all. But in general it may be said that the things which we take for granted without inquiry or reflection are just the things which determine our conscious thinking and decide our conclusions.

The collective impact of these failures has been a complete erosion of ethical standards, ultimately leading to a novel system we still call Capitalism, but which is tantamount to economic slavery. In this system—our system—the slaves are unaware both of their status and of their masters, who exist in a world apart where the intangible shackles are carefully hidden amongst reams of unreachable legalese.

If there are no permanent standards, there is no criticism possible.

There's this incredible pressure, especially on teens, to be perfect, look right, have the right clothes, date the right people, get into the right school, have the right home life, and so on.

Life is too short to read inferior books.

You don't achieve greatness in life being surrounded by mediocre people with mediocre values. Choose your company wisely.

It's amazing how life will organize around the standards you set for yourself.

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

The high cost of low living.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

It's a good feeling to have something to stand for in any part of your life. It's like personal integrity.

I believe that companies, doing business in a responsible and sustainable way, can help raise the quality of life and standards of living in some of the poorest parts of the world

When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life.

When God and spirituality are reduced to our standards or our feelings, God will never be to us the awesome Holy One of Israel. With God reduced in our eyes, a fear of people will thrive.

Civilian power establishes all institutions of the state that determine the people's living standards and the stability of society; on the contrary, wrong forces and invisible anarchy destroy that silently.

Do not expect the best and the collective results if you hire the idiot ones for any job.

Shortage of bastards and dastards is impossible.