Double Standards Quotes

“When the Israelis pick up guns, or the Poles, or the Irish, or any white man in the world says "give me liberty, or give me death," the entire white world applauds. When a black man says exactly the same thing, word for word, he is judged a criminal and treated like one and everything possible is done to make an example of this bad n*****, so there won't be any more like him.”
― James Baldwin, I Am Not Your Negro

“Ot, schodzi się kilku poważnych — och, jak poważnych! — panów, którzy, wchodząc do sali obrad, starają się pilnie zapomnieć o tym, że są ludźmi, że tam, za oknami gabinetu, huczy i pędzi życie, że to, co oni piszą na papierze, to jest pisane na ludzkiej skórze, że to, co dla nich jest przedmiotem kontrowersji prawniczej, jest dla innych nieraz kwestią życia i śmierci. I pichcą sobie od niechcenia te prawa, a to co oni upichcą, w tym potem męczą się całe pokolenia.”
― Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, Piekło kobiet

“We constantly have to reach an impossible standard in order to just be taken a little bit seriously, and you can't help but wonder if it's all a trick. If we are meant to be too busy applying lipstick to get involved with polictics, business decisions and activisim.”
― Sofie Hagen, Happy Fat: Taking Up Space in a World That Wants to Shrink You

“Why does everyone always claim women are illogical when men are a hundred times more so? First they want something, then they don't, then they make irrational decisions based on secrets they won’t explain and no one is supposed to question them because a man’s word is final.”
― Lisa Kleypas , Scandal in Spring

“Most of those who look down on people who sell their bodies look up to some of those who sell their souls.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Since Antiquity, rage had been seen as a feature of the powerful. Only those at the top could afford and enact it. They alone had the power to let others feel their rage.”
― Ute Frevert, Emotions in History: Lost and Found

“When in leadership, never fail to follow the same standard you have put in place for others. There is nothing that will undermine leadership more, than having a doublestandard.”
― J.S. Felts, Ageless Wisdom: A Treasury of Quotes to Motivate & Inspire

“War is not a fairy tale where someone is good, someone is bad, someone is hero, or someone is villain. In a war, everyone is working to serve their own interest.”
― Shon Mehta, Lair Of The Monster

“You made a deal, Tempest.” It was Vidrol’s silky voice that spoke, edged in dark warning.

“I agreed to be your wife.” I swallowed around the words, hating the way they burned angrily through my mouth. “I never promised to only marry you.”

“You can’t—"

"Of course I can,” I snapped back. “How many women are in your harem? A hundred? More? There are no laws against taking five husbands in Fyrio.”
― Jane Washington, A City of Whispers

“The nymphs wafted around me. Their smothered laughter drifted down the halls. At least, I told myself, it was not their brothers, who would have bragged and fought and hunted down my wolves. But of course, that was never a real danger. Sons were not punished.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“There are ideological precepts that people will fight or even kill for. But those things are never really what they seem to be. As much as people will claim a hard moral line, that line becomes very blurry depending on what their needs are at any given moment - like the conservative politician who's opposed to abortion, unless it's for his mistress.”
― RuPaul, The House of Hidden Meanings: A Memoir

“A good woman should neither take offense
nor blame herself for someone else's faults,
but simply strive all the harder to do what is right.”
― Heldris de Cornualles, Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

“Many if not most blacks readily look down on some blacks because of their ethnicity or nationality. Yet they have a problem with their being looked down on, because of their race, by many if not most whites.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Notably Tebow, while honoring his creator, never interrupted any flag ceremony or disrespected anyone at all, and yet in the eyes of many Americans he was blackballed by the NFL---solely because of his moral and religious stance. When this occurred, there was no concern expressed by liberals that somehow Tebow's rights were extinguished, or that it was unfair that he no longer plays football.”
― Horace Cooper, How Trump Is Making Black America Great Again: The Untold Story of Black Advancement in the Era of Trump

“I am neither Charlie Hebdo staff nor their killers. I am neither the supporters of Charlie Hebdo nor the supporters of their killers. The killed and the killers are no longer, but I still am. My duty as a conscientious writer who didn’t know these people in person is not to be them. It is not to vilify or sanctify any party. And it is certainly not to assume what their message was and reduce that message to a short slogan like “Je suis Charlie.” Our role is to interrogate all actors involved in the crime—including the hidden ones—and try to understand not just how things are, but how they have become the way they are.”
― Louis Yako

“But thinking about it today, I have to say that it enrages me. Arthur Watson had completely gotten away with his misdeeds and lies. Celia had been banished by Peg, and I had been banished by Edna—but Arthur had been allowed to carry on with his lovely life and his lovely wife, as though nothing had ever happened.

The dirty little whores had been disposed of; the man was allowed to remain.

Of course, I didn’t recognize the hypocrisy back then.

But Lord, I recognize it now.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“a lot of those people probably have felonies because of the drug laws that Joe Biden passed and they can't get a job... but Hunter Biden... he can get jobs with his drug past. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO FEEL SORRY FOR HIM!”
― Jimmy Dore

“you're gonna have to jump through all these hoops, Mr Beta.”
― Rollo Tomassi

“Most equality movements preach that we’re the same but hold men to a completely different standard.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

“Patriarchal oppression and misogynistic societal expectations play the biggest roles in a culture's drinking habits. The double standard that drinking women face is deeply rooted in male anxieties about control and their fear of women acting like people, not property.

If you want to know how a society treats its women, all you have to do is look into the bottom of a glass.”
― Mallory O'Meara, Girly Drinks: A World History of Women and Alcohol

“Poor men have more to fear when the laws go down than the rich, for they are less able to protect themselves without law. You had all better shiver when you see a policeman rioting rather than putting down a riot, for he may well come after you next, or stand aside when someone else does.”
― Harry Turtledove, The Guns of the South

“Crime is a construct that changes depending on its targets, applied to some but never to others.”
― Cradle Community, Brick By Brick: How We Build a World Without Prisons

“I’d say I’ve got no maternal instinct, but I’m not sure I buy that. What is maternal instinct except a way to shame women and condition them to believe they are the ones responsible for the baby’s well-being? Where is paternal instinct? Maybe if paternal instinct existed, I would be more interested in having a baby.”
― Claire Stanford

“It's got to be disappointing, being called all those things."
Nancy thinks: How long has she been doing this? Nearly twenty years--she can pin it to the month. The answer to that question can never untie itself from her husband's death: when Howard was killed, Nancy ran. Since then she has been called, among other things, a bitch, a cunt, a slut. Hysterical, emotional, irrational. Too fat, too thin, too tall, too short. Murderer of a husband, mother of a faggot, destroyer of liberty. A harpy, a ballbuster, a snowflake, a traitor. But also: a fighter. A role model. Sunglasses on, coat collar popped, walking down the Capitol steps. A hope, and probably just as often, a threat. The reason that the Republic might ultimately prevail, but also the source of its ultimate demise.
She says: "America is disappointing, Cate. That's why we do what we do.”
― Grant Ginder, Let's Not Do That Again

“Victims are often, automatically, accused of lying. But when a perpetrator is exposed for lying, the stigma doesn't stick. Why is that we're wary of vctims making false accusations, but rarely consider how many men have blatanly lied about, downplayed, or manipulated others to cover their own actions?”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“Victims are often, automatically, accused of lying. But when a perpetrator is exposed for lying, the stigma doesn't stick. Why is that we're wary of victims making false accusations, but rarely consider how many men have blatantly lied about, downplayed, or manipulated others to cover their own actions?”
― Chanel Miller, Know My Name

“It is really sad that those who really do contribute to the community are not thanked a lot, and those who are living off of society's expense are celebrated. Worse, those who help the community are disrespected and smeared, they're treated with contempt and ridicule, while those who are only famous for entertaining others are treated like Gods".”
― Brett Petit

“Dzieciństwo niektórych mężczyzn może trwać wiecznie, ale kobietom tak często przypominamy, że mają jakąś pracę do wykonania.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Atria Summer 2013 Beach-Read Bag: A Free Collection of Excerpts from Some of Our Favorite Writers

“Do you dare dismiss the poetess;
Fuck up her mind with your toxic kiss?
Do you dare hide the razors and knives
to bore her with your shallow dives?
Do you dare dream of a grand vacation
fucking your side chick at the Days Inn?
Do you dare ask to have your glass refilled
after ordering the hit for her spirit killed?
Do you dare daydream of a life so fair
while making hers a waking nightmare?
Do you dare not answer, darling?
Do you not hear Karma calling...”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Not Your Kind: The Gaslit Files

“Most real-world villains do not really see themselves as villains, and they despise heroes generally because they do not recognize heroes. An evil man assumes that anyone willing to do the right thing is no less rotten on the inside than he, and that there is always some ulterior motive. He hates the righteous man not because he hates righteousness, but because he knows only how to project ill will.”
― Criss Jami