Quotes on Double Standard

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

Pride is a tricky, glorious, double-edged feeling.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

In relation to a writer, most readers believe in the Double Standard: they may be unfaithful to him as often as they like, but he must never, never be unfaithful to them.

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.

A gift in season is a double favor to the needy.

It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.

We cannot use a double standard for measuring our own and other people's policies. Our demands for democratic practices in other lands will be no more effective than the guarantees of those practiced in our own country.

The police can go to downtown Harlem and pick up a kid with a joint in the streets. But they can't go into the elegant apartments and get a stockbroker who's sniffing cocaine.

Never run away from anything. Never!

Art has a double face, of expression and illusion, just like science has a double face: the reality of error and the phantom of truth.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.