Quotes About Conduct

If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.

I did things right, I never got into any trouble. I was professional and I carried myself well and always did what I was asked to do.

I believe there is a certain way to do things.

Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

If it's possible to cheat, let everyone do it.

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they're not supposed to act on them.

pretty is as pretty does

Unshackled by the state, the Ulama were now free to ascend to a position of unquestioned religious authority in the Ummah, which they used not only to institutionalize their legal and theological opinions into distinct schools of thought but also to formulate a binding, comprehensive code of conduct called the Shariah, forever transforming Islam from a religion into an all-embracing way of life: one that the Ulama claimed sole authority to define.

Iris praecepta sunt haec: honest vvere, alterum nn laedere, suum cuique tribuere. (Justinian Inst. 1.1:

If you agree that, in the absence of God, you would 'commit robbery, rape, and murder', you reveal yourself as an immoral person, 'and we would be well advised to steer a wide course around you'. If, on the other hand, you admit that you would continue to be a good person even when not under divine surveillance, you have fatally undermined your claim that God is necessary for us to be good.

Honour is not just a matter of internal good feeling, but also of external behaviour.

Golden rule is not a notional doctrine that you either agree with, or make yourself believe in. It is a method and the only adequate test of any method is to put it into practice.

What mattered was not what you believed but how you behaved. Religion was about doing things that changed you at a profound level.

The Good Book is the result of massive simulations of whole societies—what happens when billions of individual people follow various codes of conduct. It's simple: if most people use the rules in the Book most of the time, a pretty much utopian society emerges spontaneously on the macro level.

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

Profane swearing never did any man any good. No man in the richer or wiser or happier for it.

No man's religion ever survives his morals.

Considering how bad men are, it is wonderful how well they behave.

A man who insults the modesty of a woman, as good as tells her that he has seen something in her conduct that warranted his presumption.

Four things does a reckless man gain who covets his neighbor's wife - demerit, an uncomfortable bed, thirdly, punishment, and lastly, hell.

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.