Wednesday, August 09, 2006

How delicious, how true.

The ancient Roman aphorism, Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi (Gods may do what cattle may not), captures the idea of the way relatively relaxed norms of behavior are applied by the elite to themselves, while harsher behavior standards are applied to the masses.
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_standard

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