278 Quotes About Standards

Values carry the message of shared purposes, standards and conceptions of what is worth living for and what is worth striving for.

Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard.

I searched everywhere for a proof of reality, when all the while I understood quite well that the standard of reality had changed

moral, adj. Conforming to a local and mutable standard of right. Having the quality of general expediency.

A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.

Once freedom is equated with a certain material standard of living, confiscation becomes the path to liberation.

Whether or not the standard of living made possible by mass production and in turn by mass circulation, is supported by and filled with the work of us hucksters, I guess is something that only history can decide.

And what is writ is writ - / Would it were worthier!

Are we Darwinists - where we live and let live? Or are we nurturing as a society? There has to be a standard of living that we decide to support.