Quotes About Behavior

The society in which we live is the result of our psychological state.

Why is it that the stupidest people are always the most good-natured?

Todos necesitamos designar a los enemigos de la seguridad para evitar ser considerados parte de ellos... Necesitamos acusar para ser absueltos, excluir para evitar la exclusión. Necesitamos confiar en la eficacia de los dispositivos de vigilancia para permitirnos creer que las criaturas decentes que somos saldrán ilesas de las trampas que ponen esos dispositivos. Y para confirmarnos y reafirmarnos en nuestra decencia y en lo adecuado de nuestro comportamiento

Una vez que el rígido marco de los estamentos sociales fue quebrado, la tarea de "autoidentificación" impuesta a los hombres y mujeres de la modernidad temprana quedó reducida al desafío de vivir "fiel a su clase" ("a la altura de los vecinos"), de adecuarse a los tipos sociales de clases emergentes y modelos de conducta, de imitar, siguiendo un patrón, de "aculturarse", sin perder el paso ni desviarse de la norma.

up till now I have retained a deep conviction that a person is nowhere revealed so clearly as when he eats.

Being a good person is more than just not being a bad person.

The manners that apply specifically during courtship come to be replaced over the course of marriage by a different set of manners, embodying the residual pettiness, complaining, and faultfinding of childhood.

sanctification is dependent upon human behavior and attitude.

Right living is a way to right thinking.

You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry

People who have no vices, have very few virtues.

A drop of honey gathers more flies than a gallon of gall

If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad

Quando faccio bene mi sento bene. Quando faccio male mi sento male. Questa è la mia religione.

People without any vices rarely have any virtues either.

Menschen, die keine Laster haben, haben auch nur wenige Tugenden.

Sometimes looking at the fulmar's gaping, mouth-opening, mutually frenzied, head-bobbing, nibbling, shout-laughing version of 'I love you/I hate you', which can begin calmly enough but then builds to a tumultuous, guffawing, totalizing climax, I have thought that only in the ecstatic moments of life can we come near to knowing the reality of a bird's mind.

The furious behaviour of an angry man is more likely to exasperate us against himself than against his enemies.

The profligacy of a man of fashion is looked upon with much less contempt and aversion, than that of a man of meaner condition.

Nadie ha visto nunca a un perro hacer un intercambio justo y deliberado de un hueso por otro con otro perro. Nadie ha visto a un animal que, con gestos y sonidos naturales, indique a otro: esto es mío y esto es tuyo; estoy dispuesto a darte esto a cambio de eso

manner, to the selfish and original

Age hasn't matured you. It's made those traits that were ticks in the twenty-five-year-old into full-blown affectations in the thirty-eight-year-old.

You kick a dog long enough, and eventually it will bite.

I take my cue from deeds, not words.