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Standards Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- States are not moral agents, people are, and can impose moral standards on powerful institutions.
- In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of…
- With regard to freedom of expression there are basically two positions: you defend it vigorously for views you hate, or you reject it in favor…
- Extensive violations of human rights (torture, forced reduction of living standards for much of the population, police-sponsored death squads, destruction of representative institutions or of…
- I try to encourage people to think for themselves, to question standard assumptions... Don't take assumptions for granted. Begin by taking a skeptical attitude toward…
- That's the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don't work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.
- Hypocrites are those who apply to others the standards that they refuse to accept for themselves.
- The new crimes that the US and Israel were committing in Gaza as 2009 opened do not fit easily into any standard category—except for the…
- Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at…
More Standards Quotes
- I feel like obviously the standard for what TV looks like changes all the time. — J. J. Abrams
- With the states release today of a set of clear and consistent academic standards, our nation is one step closer to supporting… — Bill Gates
- The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards. — Irving Babbitt
- Having a clear faith, based on the creed of the church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, which is letting… — Pope Benedict XVI
- What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write...… — Paul Di Filippo
- Each man is everything to himself, for with his death everything is dead for him. That is why each of us thinks… — Blaise Pascal
- A man needs to look, not down, but up to standards set so much above his ordinary self as to make him… — Irving Babbitt
- Although it was created with the best of intentions, the federal government's Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program has become one of the… — Bob Beauprez