Double Standard Quotes

You dirty, double-crossing rat.

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

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

Never run away from anything. Never!

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

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!

Anyone who'd sell out a whole town wouldn't hesitate to double-cross one man.

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

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

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

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

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

The First Amendment rejects red tape, cover-up and double-speak.

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.

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.

He slides into second with a stand-up double.

Once you've lived the inside-out world of espionage, you never shed it. It's a mentality, a double standard of existence.

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

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

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.

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.

If you're injured in an automobile accident, and you sue the driver, you get much more for your injury than if you're fighting for your country. There's a double standard here.

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

Hopefully with a woman President the double standard will slowly begin to wane.

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.

No slavery can be abolished without a double emancipation,
and the master will benefit by freedom more than the freed-man.

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

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.

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

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

He travels fastest who travels alone, and that goes double for she. Real feminism is spinsterhood.

If I could be reincarnated as a fabric, I would come back as a 38 double-D bra.

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.

Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form.

Nevada once again has shown double digit increases in tax revenue... Nevada continues to show economic stability with its desirable business climate and booming tourism sector.

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.

If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

Islam is a religion of justice and dignity, and we are taught to never keep silent when facing injustice, discrimination and double standards.

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

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.

I will not calm down! Women are allowed to get angrier than men about double standards.

What goes for sex goes double for politics.

On the [Andrew] Puzder point, I do agree there has been a double standard.

Every public space is like a billboard, with messages from the collective subconscious of the nation. There one can read passivity, rage indifference, fear, double standards, subversion, bad economy, a twisted definition of 'public' itself, the whole Weltanschauung - an entire range of emotions and attitudes is exposed.

The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par.

In America today, the percentage of children and adolescents who are defined as overweight is more than double what it was in the early 1970s.

Women all live a 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).

The teabagger thing and the right-wing thing - they pick easy targets, and a female in the entertainment industry is low-hanging fruit. It's very easy to mock and marginalize people in general who are in the entertainment industry, for some reason. But then definitely there's the double standard and the misogyny that goes through it as well.