“We should be proud of our country when we have done something to be proud of, when we have lived up to our own standards. But the flip side of genuine pride is being able to recognize when we have fallen short, and to hold ourselves to account.” ShouldCountryDoneAbleSidesPrideProudStandardsAccountsGenuineOur CountryFallenBe ProudFlip Author:Anne-Marie Slaughter
“His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be.” ShouldProduceStandardsAccountsInventionFidelityFactual Book:Hemingway on War Source: Hemingway on War
“David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).” ShowsStandardsEvidenceAccountsAbsolutesResponsibleBritishProofHolocaustDocumentariesBombingDouble StandardBritish HistoryDresdenConvictsCircumstantial Evidence Book:History in Our Time Source: History in Our Time
“The journalistic tradition so exalts novelty and flashy discovery, as reputable and newsworthy, that standard accounts for the public not only miss the usual activity of science but also, and more unfortunately, convey a false impression about what drives research.” MissingActivityStandardsResearchDiscoveryTraditionAccountsImpressionUsualNoveltyJournalisticFlashyNewsworthy Author:Stephen Jay Gould
“Look, you are interested in trying to make sure that governments keep a clean environment, have regard for the lifestyles of indigenous peoples, and work for fair trade rules. Well, it's exactly the same for human rights - from non-discrimination to the basic rights to food, safe water, education and health care. We are talking rights not needs. There are standards that governments have signed up to - but nobody is holding them to account.” NeedsTryingHumansWellsLooksGovernmentCareWaterTalkingEnvironmentRightsSafeStandardsFairsAccountsRegardTradeCleanHuman RightsLifestyleDiscriminationHealth CareIndigenousIndigenous PeopleFair TradeBasic Rights Author:Mary Robinson
“There was a girl that bullied me years ago, and I was going through, you know, just the standard Instagram wormhole on her account, going way back into her photos and, yes, ended up liking something and I was like, "No!" I just wanted to disconnect my Instagram - Oh, and then she wrote me a message saying, "It's so great to see you doing well." I was like, "Nope, nope, you don't get to say that now!"” KnowsWayYearsWellsWantedGirlMessagesStandardsYears AgoAccountsInstagramBulliedWormholes Author:Bella Heathcote
“QE and other aspects of Fed policy increased inequality pretty significantly. This is reinforced if you take into account all the other non-standard measures the Fed used to bail out the banks early on in the [2008] crisis.” IfsUsedPolicyStandardsAspectAccountsCrisisInequalityFedsBail Author:Gerald Epstein
“Science is rooted in the will to truth. With the will to truth it stands or falls. Lower the standard even slightly and science becomes diseased at the core. Not only science, but man. The will to truth, pure and unadulterated, is among the essential conditions of his existence; if the standard is compromised he easily becomes a kind of tragic caricature of himself.” IfsMenKindScienceFallExistenceConditionsPureEssentialsStandardsAccountsCoreTragicRootedCaricaturesDiseased Book:On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization Source: On Perceived Motion and Figural Organization
“Our emphasis on science has resulted in an alarming rise in world populations, the demand and ever-increasing emphasis of science to improve their standards and maintain their vigor. I have been forced to the conclusion that an over-emphasis of science weakens character and upsets life's essential balance.” WorldHas BeensCharacterScienceResultsBalanceDemandEssentialsStandardsAccountsPopulationConclusionUpsetEmphasisVigorWorld Population Author:Charles Lindbergh
“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 official action that treats a person differently on account of his race or ethnic origin is inherently [by nature] suspect and presumptively [probably] invalid...Under the Constitution we have, one practice in which government may never engage in the practice of racism - not even "temporarily" and not even as an "experiment."” MayPersonsGovernmentActionRacePracticeClearEqualRacismStandardsTreatsAccountsConstitutionProtectionExperimentsDiscriminationOfficialsSuspectsAffirmative ActionAffirmativeEqual Protection Author:Potter Stewart