“The problems raised by a conscious direction of economic affairs on a national scale inevitably assume even greater dimensions when the same is attempted internationally. The conflict between planning and freedom cannot but become more serious as the similarity of standards and values among those submitted to a unitary plan diminishes.” ProblemValuesGreaterPlansEconomicSeriousConflictStandardsConsciousAssumingRaisedAffairScalesPlanningDimensionsDiminishSimilarityStandards And Values Author:Friedrich August von Hayek
“The standard progressive approach of the moment is to mix color-conscious moral invective with color-blind public policy.” MomentsMoralPolicyColorApproachStandardsConsciousBlindProgressivePublic Policy Author:Ta-Nehisi Coates
“We rarely recognize the extent in which our conscious estimates of what is worth while and what is not, are due to standards of which we are not conscious at all.” StandardsConsciousDues Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever, then, the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.” ConsciousnessForeverImpossibleEventsStandardsConsciousMachinesDancingGenuineGhostPredictablePhantoms Author:Alan Moore
“All sentiment is right; because sentiment has a reference to nothing beyond itself, and is always real, wherever a man is conscious of it. But all determinations of the understanding are not right; because they have a reference to something beyond themselves, to wit, real matter of fact; and are not always conformable to that standard.” MenRealMatterFactsUnderstandingStandardsConsciousDeterminationWitSentimentsMatter Of Fact Book:Of the Standard of Taste Source: Of the Standard of Taste
“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshipers met together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be, were they to become 'unity' conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.” HeartEyeTogetherTurnsChristMetsStandardsConsciousHundredUnityStrivePianoBowsFellowshipAccordForksLooking Away Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer