“There's a Washington standard of casually putting things off the record. It's really gone too far. I don't know an easy way to turn it back.” KnowsWayTurnsEasyGoneRecordsStandardsEasy WayPutting Things Off Author:Adam Clymer
“Camp taste turns its back on the good-bad axis of ordinary aesthetic judgment. Camp doesn't reverse things. It doesn't argue that the good is bad, or the bad is good. What it does is to offer for art, and life, a different - a supplementary - set of standards.” DoeArtDifferentTurnsTasteOffersJudgmentStandardsOrdinaryArguingCampsAestheticReverseAxesArt And Life Book:A Susan Sontag reader Source: A Susan Sontag reader
“It turns out that the men who ultimately, who unpretentiously value peace are willing to sacrifice their own peace of mind in order to render it. The question is, 'Who, between opposing forces, would do such a thing?' It seems only theoretical albeit true that men who accept an objective rather than subjective moral standard are, in a general sense, more capable of making such sacrifices for the sake of peace.” MenMindSeemsValuesOrderTurnsForceAcceptingMoralSacrificeWillingHe ManCapableStandardsSakeObjectivesPeace Of MindSubjectiveTheoreticalOpposing Book:Killosophy Source: Killosophy
“Tossed into the Secaucus graveyard are about 25 centuries of classical culture and the standards of style, elegance and grandeur that it gave to the dreams and constructions of Western man. That turns the Jersey wasteland into a pretty classy dump.” MenDreamTurnsCultureCenturyStyleStandardsWesternConstructionEleganceJerseyGrandeurDumpGraveyardWasteland Author:Ada Louise Huxtable
“We are learning that a standard of social ethics is not attained by travelling a sequestered byway, but by mixing on the thronged and common road where all must turn out for one another, and at least see the size of one another's burdens.” TurnsSocialCommonStandardsEthicsSizeBurdenMixing Book:Democracy and Social Ethics Source: Democracy and Social Ethics
“By the standards of honest, if unorthodox, accounting, government workers don't pay taxes, but are paid out of taxes. In other words, they pay taxes out of money confiscated from taxpayers, who, in turn, pay taxes twice: on their own income and on the income of members of the bureaucracy. At the very least, this should disqualify state workers from voting.” IfsShouldStatesGovernmentTurnsPayHonestTaxesMembersStandardsPaidWorkersIncomeVotingBureaucracyTaxpayersAccountingUnorthodoxGovernment Workers Author:Ilana Mercer
“Enterprising law-enforcement officers with a warrant can flick a distant switch and turn a standard mobile phone into a roving mic or eavesdrop on occupants of cars equipped with travel assistance systems.” LawTurnsCarStandardsPhonesOfficersLaw EnforcementAssistanceEnforcementMobileWarrantsMobile PhonesMicsEnterprisingRoving Author:Jonathan Zittrain
“I was already writing about the idea of a 'multiverse' in the 1970s, though I might have called it the 'pluriverse.' How was I to know it would turn out to be the standard model? Actually, I consider myself an enlightenment fossil.” KnowsWritingIdeasMightTurnsModelsStandardsEnlightenmentFossilsMultiverse Author:Charles Jencks
“The all American work ethic, destructive enough by itself, also packs a gender double standard that strip-mines the natural resources of both parents. It has taught us that as their earnings and success increase, men become "more manly," while women become "less feminine." This perverse cultural dynamic gives fathers an incentive to stay away from their families and kill themselves at work, while coercing mothers to limit their career commitment, which in turn limits their wages and shortchanges their families.” MenGivingEnoughMotherTurnsFatherParentWomenNaturalCareersMinesTaughtLimitsStandardsEthicsCommitmentResourcesIncreaseGenderDestructiveFemininePacksEarningWagesWork EthicIncentivesNatural ResourcesManlyTaught UsDouble Standard Author:Letty Cottin Pogrebin
“Science can give mankind a better standard of living, better health and a better mental life, if mankind in turn gives science the sympathy and support so essential to its progress.” IfsGivingScienceTurnsSupportProgressMankindEssentialsStandardsStandards Of LivingLiving Better Author:Vannevar Bush