Double Standard Quotes

• The safe way to double your money is to fold it over once and put it in your pocket.

  Kin Hubbard

  Inspirational, Funny, Money

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• Let's not have a double standard. One standard will do just fine.

  George Carlin

  Standards, Fine

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• A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

  Oscar Levant

  Men, Bridges, Politician

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• It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free.

  George Carlin

  Country, Philosophy, Slave Owners

  "What Am I Doing in New Jersey?". Live album by George Carlin, 1988.

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• If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all.

  Burt Prelutsky

  Standards, Ifs

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• Treat all as your own self. Do not have a double standard.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Integrity, Equality, Self

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Oct 25, 2013

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• Freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion all have a double aspect - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

  Frank Murphy

  Freedom Of Speech, Action, Freedom Of Religion

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• 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.

  Hubert H. Humphrey

  Wisdom, Country, Land

  1948 Democratic National Convention Address, delivered 14 July 1948, Philadelphia, PA

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• We weep for a bird’s cry, but not for a fish’s blood. Blessed are those with a voice.

  Mamoru Oshii

  Blessed, Blessing, Blood

  "Fictional character: Major Motoko Kusanagi". "Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence", www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Trying, Half

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• We have a double standard, which is to say, a man can show how much he cares by being violent-see, he's jealous, he cares-a woman shows how much she cares by how much she's willing to be hurt; by how much she will take; how much she will endure; how suicidal she's prepared to be.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Hurt, Suicidal, Jealous

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• 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.

  Noam Chomsky

  Kids, White Privilege, Racism

  "Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama". Interview with Mike Stivers, www.truth-out.org. April 24, 2013.

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• None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

  Jane Austen

  Women, Equality, Water

  "Persuasion". Book by Jane Austen, www.theguardian.com. 1817.

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• I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him.

  William H. Macy

  Dog, Past, Pet

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

  Publilius Syrus

  Favors, Needy, Seasons

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• Women all live a double standard.

  Joss Whedon

  Standards

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Never run away from anything. Never!

  Winston Churchill

  Running, Healing, Danger

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• A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

  Thomas Fuller

  Birthday, Christmas, Kind

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• Non-violence requires a double faith, faith in God and also faith in man.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Peace, Men

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• In the Goldstone Report, Israeli perpetrators of possible crimes against humanity were made subject to prosecution and punishment, although the geopolitical leverage of the United States within the UN prevents implementation. At the same time, several African leaders are being prosecuted for their crimes against humanity and participation in genocide: a double standard of sorts, given the impunity accorded to the West and Israel.

  Richard A. Falk

  Punishment, Israel, Leader

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Punishment, Abuse, Decline

  Uncle Tom's Cabin ch. 20 (1852)

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• We're introducing separate rooms with double beds in all of our planes so people can actually go with their partner and have a proper night's sleep...

  Richard Branson

  Sleep, Night, People

  "Travel: Bigger, faster, fancier". Interview with Kalin Thomas-Samuel, www.cnn.com. January 1, 2000.

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• I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

  Catherine Deneuve

  Physical Courage

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2005.

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

  David Ogilvy

  Work, Years, Careers

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• 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.

  W. H. Auden

  Believe, Writing, May

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