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• By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?

  Walter Rodney

  Slavery, Violence, Morality

  "The Groundings with my Brothers". Book by Walter Rodney, 1969.

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• If one would discern the centers of dominance in any society, one need only look to its definitions of "virtue" and "vice" or "legal" and "criminal," for, in the strength to set standards, resides the strength to maintain control.

  Freda Adler

  Strength, Vices, Criminals

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• One of the great weaknesses of standard libertarian theory is that it tends to push too hard by elevating presumptions into absolutes.

  Richard Allen Epstein

  Weakness, Libertarian, Theory

  "Skepticism and Freedom". Book by Richard Epstein, 2003.

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• Although it is true that only about 20 percent of American workers are in unions, that 20 percent sets the standards across the board in salaries, benefits and working conditions. If you are making a decent salary in a non-union company, you owe that to the unions. One thing that corporations do not do is give out money out of the goodness of their hearts.

  Molly Ivins

  Heart, Giving, Salary

  "Labor’s Fight Is OUR Fight" by Dave Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 29, 2012.

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• There is no use in deceiving ourselves. American public opinion rejects the market economy, the capitalistic free enterprise system that provided the nation with the highest standard of living ever attained. Full government control of all activities of the individual is virtually the goal of both national parties.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Party, Government, Goal

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• Besides, all evil is relative. Something that is evil at one level of evolution can be good at an earlier stage because it provides the essential stimulus for development. But you want to judge everything by your own standards. You have reached a comparatively high level and so you see what you fight against as evil. Just think of the others, those who are at an earlier stage of development. Do not bar them from the path toward progress and evolution.

  P.D. Ouspensky

  Fighting, Thinking, Evil

  P. D. Ouspensky (1988). “Talks With a Devil”, p.211, Library of Alexandria

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• IQ tests are routinely used as weapons against Black people in particular and minority groups and poor people generally. The tests are based on white middle-class standards, and when we score low on them, the results are used to justify the prejudice that we are inferior and unintelligent. Since we are taught to believe that the tests are infallible, they have become a self-fulfilling prophecy that cuts off our initiative and brainwashes us.

  Huey Newton

  Believe, Cutting, White

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• When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.

  Craig Groeschel

  Giving, Judging, Would Be

  Craig Groeschel (2012). “Soul Detox: Clean Living in a Contaminated World”, p.174, Zondervan

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• Today, if you don't understand the controller, you're not able to enjoy video games. ... We expect the Revolution controller to become the standard in video game controls.

  Satoru Iwata

  Games, Video, Wii

  "Revolution Demo Tour Continues" by Mark Bozon, www.ign.com. December 15, 2005.

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• It's nice to wear a suit once in a while. It can restrict some body movement, but it makes me feel as though I'm part of society. I feel a sense of security because I've conformed to the standards of the rest of the world.

  Hideo Kojima

  Nice, Movement, World

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• The folly and hubris of the policy makers who heedlessly thrust the nation into an ill-defined and open-ended 'global war on terror' without the foggiest notion of what victory would look like, how it would be won, and what it might cost approached standards hitherto achieved only by slightly mad German warlords.

  Andrew Bacevich

  War, Mad, Victory

  Andrew J. Bacevich (2010). “Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War”, p.10, Metropolitan Books

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• Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals.

  Llewellyn Rockwell

  Life, Freedom, Business

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• The only standard we have for judging all of our social, economic, and political institutions and arrangements as just or unjust, as good or bad, as better or worse, derives from our conception of the good life for man on earth, and from our conviction that, given certain external conditions, it is possible for men to make good lives for themselves by their own efforts.

  Mortimer Adler

  Life, Men, Judging

  Mortimer Jerome Adler (1991). “Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Be a light unto the world, a standard to others. You can live in the world and not partake of the sins of the world. You can live life joyously, beautifully, unmarred by the ugliness of sin. This is our confidence in you.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Life, Light, World

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• Socrates was the first to call philosophy down from the heavens and to place it in cities, and even to introduce it into homes and compel it to inquire about life and standards and goods and evils.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Life, Philosophy, Home

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• ...One of the most important lessons, perhaps, is the fact that SOFTWARE IS HARD. From now on I shall have significantly greater respect for every successful software tool that I encounter. During the past decade I was surprised to learn that the writing of programs for TeX and Metafont proved to be much more difficult than all the other things I had done (like proving theorems or writing books). The creation of good software demand a significiantly higher standard of accuracy than those other things do, and it requires a longer attention span than other intellectual tasks.

  Donald Knuth

  Book, Writing, Learning

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• The standard definition of AI is that which we don't understand.

  Bill Joy

  Definitions, Computing

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• 'But surely "blind" is just how you would describe men who have no true knowledge of reality, and no clear standard in their mind to refer to, as a painter refers to his model, and which they can study closely before they start laying down rules about what is fair or right or good where they are needed, or maintaining, as Guardians, any rules that already exist.'
  'Yes, blind is just about what they are'

  Plato

  Reality, Men, Words Of Wisdom

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• Not only does inspiration from the Lord compensate for want of facts; it also induces men by self-discipline, to conform in their personal conduct and in their dealings one with another to the highest standards they know. In other words, it gives men the capacity which distinguishes wisdom from knowledge.

  Marion G. Romney

  Wisdom, Inspiration, Men

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• The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Psychology, Levels, Come Up

  Henry David Thoreau, Odell Shepard (1961). “The Heart of Thoreau's Journals”, p.4, Courier Corporation

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• Involuntary mental hospitalization is like slavery. Refining the standards for commitment is like prettifying the slave plantations. The problem is not how to improve commitment, but how to abolish it

  Thomas Szasz

  Commitment, Slavery, Problem

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• The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

  Roger Goodell

  Football, Nfl, Privilege

  "Aaron Hernandez: Arrest Warrant Issued For Patriots' Tight End In Connection To Murder Investigation", www.foxnews.com. June 21, 2013.

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• The all-round liberally educated man, from Palaeolithic times to the time when the earth shall become a cold cinder, will always be the same, namely, the man who follows his standards of truth and beauty, who employs his learning and observation, his reason, his expression, for purposes of production, that is, to add something of his own to the stock of the world's ideas.

  Henry Fairfield Osborn

  Beauty, Truth, Learning

  Henry Fairfield Osborn (1900). “Collected papers”

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• We've now become conscious of the uncalculated social, economic, and environmental costs of that kind of "unconscious" capitalism. And many are beginning to practice a form of "conscious capitalism," which involves integrity and higher standards, and in which companies are responsible not just to shareholders, but also to employees, consumers, suppliers, and communities. Some call it "stakeholder capitalism."

  Patricia Aburdene

  Business, Integrity, Practice

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• Compassion is a piece of vocabulary that could change us if we truly let it sink into the standards to which we hold ourselves and others.

  Krista Tippett

  Work, Compassion, Vocabulary

  "Reconnecting with compassion". TED Talks, www.ted.com. November 2010.

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