Quotes and Sayings About Double Standard

I could have stopped it after they paid me the $50,000. I wouldn't even have had to go on to do more than I already had: just the double agents' names that I gave.
-- Aldrich Ames

#Names #Double Standard #Agents

I'm shocked at the sexism and double standard coming out of the far right.
-- Barbara Mikulski

#Double Standard #Coming Out #Standards

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.
-- Catherine Deneuve

#Double Standard

David Irving has consistenly applied an evidential double standard, demanding absolute documentary proof to convict the Germans (as when he sought to show that Hitler was not responsible for the Holocaust), while relying on circumstantial evidence to condemn the British (as in his account of the Allied bombing of Dresden).
-- David Cannadine

#Holocaust #Documentaries #Double Standard

If I knew me as somebody else, I would hate me just as much. Why have a double standard?
-- David Wong

#Hate #Double Standard #Hate Me

This is a form of double taxation and it's simply unfair.
-- Doc Hastings

#Taxation #Double Standard #Unfair

If poly A is added to poly U, to form a double or triple helix, the combination is inactive.
-- Francis Crick

#Double Standard #Form #Combination

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 #Double Standard #Action

But the Danzig unreleased stuff will be either a single or a double CD.
-- Glenn Danzig

#Cds #Double Standard #Stuff

You dirty, double-crossing rat.
-- James Cagney

#Dirty #Double Standard #Rats

What goes for sex goes double for politics.
-- Kate Clinton

#Sex #Double Standard

I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.
-- Lee Konitz

#Double Standard #Saxophone #Instruments

Carrying those double tanks around all the time got to be a little rough on me. I had to put that damn wetsuit on and take it off, sometimes three or four times a day.
-- Lloyd Bridges

#Tanks #Three #Double Standard

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.
-- Mary Kay Ash

#Mistake #Double Standard #World

Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.
-- Oriana Fallaci

#Lying #Play #Double Standard

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

#Men #Bridges #Double Standard

Double-digit inflation is a terrible thing - and it got up to 14 or 15 percent on a monthly basis for a while, shortly after I became chairman of the Fed.
-- Paul Volcker

#Double Standard #Feds #Terrible

I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.
-- Peter Banks

#Feelings #Double Standard #Littles

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

#Double Standard #Favors #Needy

I think baseball - the baseball genre - is this mitt, to use a double pun there, to catch a whole bunch of themes.
-- Rachel Griffiths

#Baseball #Thinking #Double Standard

My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.
-- Sarah Millican

#Mother #Double Standard #Mouths

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
-- Thomas Fuller

#Birthday #Christmas #Double Standard

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.
-- Vera Miles

#Love You #Men #Double Standard

There's nobody else that can double me - except for a doll.
-- Verne Troyer

#Dolls #Double Standard

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 #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.
-- Warren Buffett

#Country #Double Standard #Bulls

What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.
-- Whitey Herzog

#Play #Numbers #Double Standard

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 #Double Standard

It's true that in Cuba there are double standards, there's opportunism, and there is a lack of freedom in some ways.
-- Fernando Perez

#Cuba #Double Standard #Way

I have a total responsibility to the reader. The reader has to trust me and never feel betrayed. There's a double standard between writers and readers. Readers can be unfaithful to writers anytime they like, but writers must never ever be unfaithful to the readers. And it's appropriate, because the writer is getting paid and the reader isn't.
-- Jonathan Santlofer

#Responsibility #Double Standard #Betrayed