Quotes About Behavior

If somebody is mean or rude, I just, I don't engage - just block and say, 'Well, that's not very polite.'

Sometimes people confuse that polite players aren't competitive.

I get into an awful lot of trouble for not being polite.

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization.

I don't think you should have to try to be nice, I think most people are nice. I think being cheerful and nice is just a politeness.

Politeness is only one half good manners and the other half good lying.

When people talk about political correctness, the only element of any value is good manners.

The challenge for Muslims in America is to respect the fears of ordinary people while resisting the exploitation of those fears by political parties, lobbies and sectors of the media. To meet this challenge, Muslims must reassess their own involvement, behavior and contributions in American society.

We live in a world in which politically fascistic behavior, if not the actual philosophy, is unquestionably on the rise.

I'm not a politician and my other habits are good.

I am not a politician, and my other habits air good.

Modern politicians like Cameron dream of exerting paternal influence without being seen as paternalistic, of fostering moral behaviour without being considered moralistic.

You can't expect a poodle to guard your house the way a Doberman pinscher does, and you can't expect a Doberman pinscher to jump in your lap the way a poodle does. Some people are just animals of a certain nature, and they are always going to have certain impulses that motivate them.

You lose your manners when you are poor.

And it's absolutely true that male sexual behaviour and female responses to male demands change a lot when they start communicating - and the levels of the communication that I've seen on the ground in very, very poor areas are so high and I think why don't we have that here?

Poor people aren't making dumb decisions because they are dumb, but because they're living in a context in which anyone would make dumb decisions.

My children - in many dimensions they're as poorly behaved as many other children, but at least on this dimension I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.

I'm a slave to my dogs and go out with them almost every day. They are poorly behaved if they don't run. They really act up.

For me, I'm going to try to do the same thing to you no matter if I like you, no matter if I hate you, no matter if it pops up. You're not going to be able to say one thing, and now I really want to kick you.

Sometimes pessimism or optimism gets popular, and it's contagious.

There are certainly more people in the business world who would score high in the psychopathic dimension than in the general population. You'll find them in any organization where, by the nature of one's position, you have power and control over other people and the opportunity to get something.

Whatever the Victorians did right in England, we need to resuscitate over here. In the late 19th century, the entire English population were propagandised into buying into a certain code of morals. I would be happy if we could emulate that in some way in America.

It is true, there are many bad people; there are more of them than in the past, but that is because there are more people, meaning the population has tripled; there must be three times more bad people.