Quotes about Standards

Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Louisiana's spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.

I get a feeling that American standards are sort of an unspoken norm, and that whether one resists them, or whether one adopts them, they are there to be reckoned with

A rational man never distorts or corrupts his own standards and judgment in order to appeal to the irrationality, stupidity, or dishonesty of others.

The lesson in all this is that to pit women against men is a form of denigration of women, as though their measure must be determined by masculine standards.

Most blacks have lost the moral authority to claim the mantle of civil rights because they refuse to stand for what is right.

I didn't bother to ask him why he didn't wait for someone from the American Legation, for I knew the reason. French methods are a little old-fashioned by our cold standards: they believe in the conscience, the sense of guilt, a criminal should be confronted with his crime, for he may break down and betray himself. I told myself again I was innocent

I have a problem with honoring mediocrity in so many cases over teams that have great years.

If there is no absolute by which to judge society, society is absolute.

Mundus vult decipi'—the world wants to be deceived. To live without deception presupposes standards beyond the reach of most people whose existence is largely shaped by compromise, evasion and mutual accommodation. Could they face their weakness, their vanity and selfishness, without a mask?

As Proust once said, classically beautiful women should be left to men without imagination.