#standard

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God. ↗

— George Washington

#hands #honest #let us #raise #repair

To set up as a standard of public morality a notion which can neither be defined nor conceived is to open the door to every kind of tyranny. ↗

— Simone Weil

#defined #door #every #kind #morality

Is the beauty myth good to men? It hurts them by teaching them how to avoid loving women. It prevents men from actually seeing women. It does not, contrary to its own professed ideology, stimulate and gratify sexual longing. In suggesting a vision in place of a woman, it has a numbing effect, reducing all senses but the visual, and impairing even that. ↗

— Naomi Wolf

#beauty #body-image #cosmetic-surgery #cosmetics #culture

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#attribute #belonging #character #clothes #endeavors

In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#absence #confiscation #gold #gold standard #inflation

[T]he more clamour we make about 'the women's point of view', the more we rub it into people that the women's point of view is different, and frankly I do not think it is -- at least in my job. The line I always want to take is, that there is the 'point of view' of the reasonably enlightened human brain, and that this is the aspect of the matter which I am best fitted to uphold. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#clichés #double-standards #empowerment #equality #feminism

The credit which the apparent conformity with recognized scientific standards can gain for seemingly simple but false theories may, as the present instance shows, have grave consequences. ↗

— Friedrich August von Hayek

#conformity #consequences #credit #false #gain

It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch. ↗

— Thor Heyerdahl

#among #considered #desert #destitute #find

I think my knowledge of music theory is rooted in jazz theory, and a lot of the writers of standards - Rodgers and Hart, and Gershwin. ↗

— Zooey Deschanel

#hart #i #i think #jazz #knowledge

Conscious of our many problems, I seek today to lay a foundation to our public policy. My fundamental purpose is to devote my term of office to raising the standard of public service in New Jersey. ↗

— Charles Edison

#devote #foundation #fundamental #fundamental purpose #i