Quotes About Conduct

Just because I tread heavily on propriety's toes doesn't mean I can't play the game when it's of use to me.

La etiqueta es un puñado de normas que la gente utiliza para poder ser grosera en público con los demás.

comport yourself with more decorum in the future.

As they say: know a lady by her manner, a man by his cloth.

We're not going to cheat," I said. "Unless we can do so without breaking the rules. Besides

I am a man, not an angel, and if the grief that overtook me occasionally blurred my vision and led to certain lapses of conduct, that in no way should cast doubt on the truth of my story. Before anyone tries to discredit me by pointing to those stains on my record, I come forward of my own free will and openly pronounce my guilt to the world. These are treacherous times, and I know how easily perceptions can be twisted by a single word spoken into the wrong ear.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

I am very good at playing monkey games with my morality.

I'm not willing to let any thing or any person put my physical sobriety at risk; why should I put less value on my emotional sobriety? Besides, I like the feeling I have when I conduct myself in an emotionally mature, independent manner.

We come to feel as we behave.

By responding to conduct while ignoring the factors that cause it, schools inadvertently further the educational failure of these students and may ultimately contribute to their marginalization as adults.

Act like a criminal and that's how you'll be treated.

She did not know that morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.

Whoever lies with an animal must surely be put to death.

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.

None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

You must not expose the nakedness of your father by having sexual relations with your mother. She is your mother; you must not have sexual relations with her.

You must not have sexual relations with your fatherís wife; it would dishonor your father.

You must not have sexual relations with your sister, either your fatherís daughter or your motherís daughter, whether she was born in the same home or elsewhere.

You must not have sexual relations with the daughter of your fatherís wife, born to your father; she is your sister.

You must not have sexual relations with your fatherís sister; she is your fatherís close relative.

You must not have sexual relations with your daughter-in-law. She is your sonís wife; you are not to have sexual relations with her.

You must not have sexual relations with your brotherís wife; that would shame your brother.

You must not lie carnally with any animal, thus defiling yourself with it; a woman must not stand before an animal to mate with it; that is a perversion.