Concern Quote by Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

“The promotion of ‘average’ individual causes a general levelling down.”

— Alain de Benoist

The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone…

— Bill Hybels

Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without…

— Thomas Sowell

Stop letting others bring you down to their level.Refuse to lower your standards to accomodate those who refuse to raise theirs.

— Damian

No tendency is quite so strong in human nature as the desire to lay down rules of conduct for other people.

— William Howard Taft

I’m a big believer in starting with high standards and raising them. We make progress only when we push ourselves to the highest level.…

— Dan Gable

There are many well-meaning people today who work at placing an economic floor beneath all of us so that no one shall exist below…

— Ronald Reagan

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard,…

— Matthew Quick

“In the democratic, egalitarian spirit of our day, we hold in suspicion positions of social authority, yet we submit to the power of peers.…

— Mark Sayers

If you don't set a baseline standard for what you'll accept in life, you'll find it's easy to slip into behaviours and attitudes or…

— Anonymous

Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.

— Jonah Goldberg

Your position in the hierarchy influences your behaviour.

— Michael Marmot