Standards Quotes

2047 quotes by 1556 authors

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have… — Mark Twain
The convention missionaries call "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality… — Mark Twain
The natural inclination of man is to rely solely upon himself and to ignore the purpose of his existence as well as his relationship to… — Delbert L. Stapley
Do not trouble yourselves about standards or ideals; but try to be faithful and natural: remember that there is no greatness, no beauty, which does… — William Dean Howells
The intellectual's hostility to the businessman presents no mystery, as the two have, by function, wholly different standards. While the businessman's motto is the customer… — Bertrand de Jouvenel
Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible… — Ludwig von Mises
With virtually no knowledge of or interest in history, the masses simply take their unprecedented high living standards under capitalism for granted. — Ralph Raico
Liberalism is, in fact, the ideology of the capitalist revolution that prodigiously raised the living standards of the mass of people; a doctrine gradually elaborated… — Ralph Raico
The growth of a nation's productive potential is the central factor in determining its growth in real wages and living standards.... high rates of investment… — Paul Samuelson
Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards. — Thomas Sowell
For complex reasons, our culture allows "economy" to mean only "money economy." It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any… — Wendell Berry
The Universal Declaration... as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations...it not only crystallizes the political thought of our times on… — Dag Hammarskjold
We are opposing the exploitation of man by man, similarly we must oppose the exploitation of peoples by other peoples ... but today this is… — Bruno Kreisky
I believe we should try to move away from the vocabulary and attitudes which shape the stereotyping of developed and developing country approaches to human… — Mary Robinson
The Declaration has a moral power which is of enormous weight and influence. The statement of the rights represent a goal, or a standard, to… — H. V. Evatt
CO2 is a minor player in the total system, and human CO2 emissions are insignificant compared to total natural greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, lowering human… — Jonathan Duhamel
The public discourse on global warming has little in common with the standards of scientific discourse. Rather, it is part of political discourse where comments… — Richard Lindzen
Nature's standard operating procedure, pairing a population explosion with a population crash. — Alfred W. Crosby
The equal protection standard of the constitution has one clear and central meaning - it absolutely prohibits invidious [repugnant] discrimination by government...Under our Constitution, any… — Potter Stewart
The median GPA and LSAT percentile for students of the country's elite law schools were 3.8 and 98 respectively. At the time fewer than 20… — Lino Graglia

Who Wrote These Standards Quotes

1,556 authors contributed a total of 2,047 Standards Quotes, led by these top contributors: