Quotes About Behavior

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

A saint is a person who behaves decently in a shockingly indecent society.

A revolution doesn't happen when society adopts new tools. It happens when society adopts new behaviors

Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

Society prepares the crime; the criminal commits it.

Society is capricious and rewards the bad as often as the good. But it never rewards the quiet.

I don't believe there is any such definition, there is no such thing as evil, only moral judgments based on what society believes to be wrong behavior.

Probably never in human history did we live in a society in which, at the microlevel of personal behavior, our lives were so strongly regulated.

An armed society is a polite society.

The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.

Lowering the Lord's standards to the level of a society's inappropriate behavior is apostasy.

Familiarity is a suspension of almost all the laws of civility, which libertinism has introduced into society under the notion of ease.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

Boy's natural play is rough and tumble play, it's the universal play of little boys. And it's very different from aggression. And we are a society that's failing to understand the distinction.

In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable.

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.

Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.

Too much society makes a man frivolous; too little, a savage.

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be.

Blaming society makes it awfully easy for a person of weak character to shrug off his own responsibility for his actions.

Sociopathy is the extreme manifestation of the way we socialize boys in our society.

If a man be gloomy let him keep to himself. No one has the right to go croaking about society, or what is worse, looking as if he stifled grief.