Double Standards

"This year, or this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."

C. S. Lewis, The Case for Christianity

We demand high standards of others - expectations, if you will - but of ourselves we are insanely relaxed. This is a selfish double standard. What we expect of others we must expect also of self. When we demand a stricter standard of another we must not allow ourself any license in that same realm.