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Male nudity, full-frontal nudity, has always been considered a lot more taboo than female nudity. As far back as I can remember, there’s been a double standard between men and women. I think it’s time that men get equal time in terms of nudity. (Standard Quotes)
Surely,’ she said, much quieter, more reasonable, ‘surely you’ve been with other women?’His glance at her was dry. ‘What do you think?’She looked away at random. ‘I think that it appears we have a double standard, here. Men can have sex, women can’t. Who, then, do the men have sex with? (Standard Quotes)
Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivasection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees! The only reason we can be comfortable with such a double standard is that the intermediates between humans and chimps are all dead. (Standard Quotes)
Because orgasmic sex would lead to women’s autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we’re currently living under. (Standard Quotes)
Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon’s fake ghetto series, The Wire. It figures. Isn’t this sexism? Isn’t this a double standard? They’re hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there’s a big market in downing Black men. (Standard Quotes)
For most people, their wealth accrues slowly, and at any given point they say, ‘Okay, I should kick up my standard of living because now I’ve earned slightly more wealth.’ I went from the dorm room to having a billion dollars. (Standard Quotes)
But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms. (Standard Quotes)
East Asia confirms the superior capacity of industrial capitalism in raising the material standard of living of large masses of people. (Standard Quotes)
Somehow we have to detach from feeling as though money is a quick and easy standard by which we can gauge how well we’re doing. (Standard Quotes)
Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn’t obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls did unnatural things to be thin. (Standard Quotes)
Working 40 hours a week used to mean a minimum standard of living and a foothold on the first rung of the economic ladder to the middle class. (Standard Quotes)
Practically the only way to dry the swamp of radical Islam is through economic development and an improved standard of living. (Standard Quotes)
Efficient spending and saving will give the family more security, more opportunities, more education, and a higher standard of living. (Standard Quotes)
We know what happens when a woman earns money. She is far more likely than a man to spend her earnings on the health and education of her children and to invest in improving her family’s standard of living. (Standard Quotes)
It’s so gratifying to see people face to face who get to meet the people who are giving them a fair price for their work. They can now provide medical support for their kids, give them better education and in general have a better standard of living. God knows they deserve it. (Standard Quotes)
Today, if you don’t understand the controller, you’re not able to enjoy video games. We expect the Revolution [Wii] controller to become the standard in video game controls. (Standard Quotes)
It’s almost a standard tactic, really, to try to minimize any effort that people in the entertainment business or in any public occupation make to express themselves. (Standard Quotes)
I sense very little appetite for green efforts to persuade people to accept a frozen or declining standard of living for the sake of the environment. Recessions remind us that economic retreat or stagnation is painful, whatever the goal. (Standard Quotes)
Our work on light bulbs wasn’t an arbitrary mandate. We didn’t just pick a standard out of the air, or look for a catchy sounding standard like 25 by 2025 not based in science or feasibility. Instead, we worked with both industry and environmental groups to come up with a standard that made sense and was doable. (Standard Quotes)
Aspire to decency. Practice civility toward one another. Admire and emulate ethical behavior wherever you find it. Apply a rigid standard of morality to your lives; and if, periodically, you fail as you surely will adjust your lives, not the standards. (Standard Quotes)
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system. (Standard Quotes)
It’s OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don’t want them to catch up because we’re slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse. (Standard Quotes)
The great aim of your life should be to keep your powers up to the highest possible standard, to so conserve your energies, guard your health, that you can make every occasion a great occasion. (Standard Quotes)
I don’t really get philosophical, but I believe that nice people are strong and usually in my horror stories, I don’t like to write about the old standard where some rotten guy gets chased by a mean spirit that gets him in the end.I’d rather write about nice people that are menaced from outside by some sort of evil power and who sort of slug it out. (Standard Quotes)
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey. (Standard Quotes)
The euro is a hybrid of a fixed exchange-rate regime, like the 1980s ERM or the 1930s gold standard, and a state currency. (Standard Quotes)
When we watch a play under the standard circumstances, we’ve lost volition and time is passing. A still play feels like an existential threat. (Standard Quotes)
Ordinary people, even weak people, can do extraordinary things through temporary courage generated by a situation. But the person of character does not need the situation to generate his courage. It is a part of his being and a standard approach to all life’s challenges. (Standard Quotes)
If the eye is constantly greeted by harmonious objects, having elegance of form and color, a standard of taste naturally grows up. (Standard Quotes)
By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others. (Standard Quotes)