Quotes About Behavior

If a person sings quietly to himself on the street people smile with approval; but if he talks it's not alright; they think he's crazy. The singer is presumed to be happy and the talker unhappy.

You could go outside today and have a glum face, or you could put a smile on your face and go out into the world, even though you don't feel like it - that's selfless giving!

...if you smile for no reason at all you will actually start to feel happy

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

Your own acts tell the world who you are and what kind of society you think it should be.

Man is a moral being, only because he lives in society. Let all social life disappear and morality will disappear with it.

Terrorism is a psychological warfare. Terrorists try to manipulate us and change our behavior by creating fear, uncertainty, and division in society.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

Play is older than culture, for culture, however inadequately defined, always presupposes human society, and animals have not waited for man to teach them their playing.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Attention-deficit disorders seem to abound in modern society, and we don't know the cause.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

Etiquette is the ceremonial code of polite life, more voluminous and minute in each portion of society according to its rank.

You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society.

If we want to move towards a low-polluting, sustainable society, we need to get consumers to think about their purchases.

Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

What society does to its children, so will its children do to society.

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.

Our society allows people to be absolutely neurotic and totally out of touch with their feelings and everyone else's feelings, and yet be very respectable.

One must conform to the baseness of an age or become neurotic.

And as we are - the world is. That is, if we are greedy, envious, competitive, our society will be competitive, envious, greedy, which brings misery and war. The State is what we are.

Every society has the criminals it deserves.

We should not expect people to be good, but should make it impossible for them to be bad.

We've turned into a whining society.