Quotes About Behavior

Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.

Morals — all correct moral laws — derive from the instinct to survive. Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.

The country and culture commonly known as America had had a badly split personality all through its history. Its overt laws were almost always puritanical for a people whose covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were all Apollonian in varying degrees---its religious revivals were often hysterical in a fashion almost Dionysian.

I'm a professional bad example. You can learn a lot by watching me. Or listening to me. Either one.

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

Women and cats do what they do; there is nothing a man can do about it

Human bipolarity was both the binding force and the driving energy for all human behavior, from sonnets to nuclear equations. If any being thinks that human psychologists exaggerate on this point, let it search Terran patent offices, libraries, and art galleries for creations of eunuchs.

Jill, of all the nonsense that twists the world, the concept of 'altruism' is the worst. People do what they want to do, every time.

When a cat greets you, he makes a big operation of it, bumping, stropping your legs, buzzing like mischief. But when he leaves, he just walks off and never looks back. Cats are smart.

Being "up to something" was the unnamable and unforgiveable crime for which any American male could be indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced in one breath. He wondered how things had gotten rigged so that the male half of the race must always behave to suit feminine rules and feminine logic, like a snotty-nosed school boy in front of a stern teacher.

Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.

J]uvenile delinquent' is a contradiction in terms. 'Delinquent' means 'failing in duty.' But duty is an adult virtue--indeed a juvenile becomes an adult when, and only when, he acquires a knowledge and duty and embraces it more than the self-love he was born with.

Sick cultures show a complex of symptoms such as you have named…but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.

This school is based on the idea that a man who can think correctly will automatically behave morally—or

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The culture known as "America" had a split personality throughout its history. Its laws were puritanical; its covert behavior tended to be Rabelaisian; its major religions were Apollonian; its revivals were almost Dionysian. In the twentieth century (Terran Christian Era) nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed—and nowhere was there such deep interest in it.

he does not control is to behave with blind idiocy.

All human behavior, all human motivations, all man's hopes and fears, were colored and controlled by mankind's tragic and oddly beautiful pattern of reproduction

Seems to be a deep instinct in human beings for making everything compulsory that isn't forbidden.

Do You Have a PROBLEM? Nothing is illegal—it isn't what you do; it's the way that you do it.

no better way to improve breed. Certain types of loudmouthism should be a capital offense among decent people.

Don't grunt; it is not pleasing in a young woman.

Whoring is like military service, Ira—okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down.

but a dying culture invariably exhibits personal rudeness. Bad manners. Lack of consideration for others in minor matters. A loss of politeness, of gentle manners, is more significant than is a riot.