Quotes About Behavior

Real good-breeding is independent of the forms and refinements of what has assumed to itself the name of society.

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.

It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me.

The needs of a society determine its ethics.

The society is the extension of the individual. If the individual is greedy, cruel, merciless, egoistic, etc. so it will be the society.

Not just charity, even corruption begins at home.

Profaneness is a brutal vice. He who indulges in it is no gentleman, I care not what his stamp may be in society; I care not what clothes he wears, or what culture he boasts.

A man's reception depends upon his coat; his dismissal upon the wit he shows.

When an individual is awake, almost all he does and says is inspired by the model of behavior that the society imposes,even without his being aware of it.

Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity

Compassion for animals is something that every child has naturally but they are lured away from these instincts by society's nasty habits.

The individual is not a killer, but the group is, and by identifying with it the individual is transformed into a killer.

You need people in a society to have reached a certain standard of living before they can be polite. You learn how to respect others because you don't have to fight as much, you have what you need.

The nature and extent of profanity and vulgarity in our society is a measure of its deterioration.

The most vulgar slang is scarcely worse than the attempted elegance which those unused to good society imagine to be the evidence of cultivation.

We are to a large extent an imitative society.

Sins cut boldly up through every class in society, but mere misdemeanours show a certain level in life.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

We've been trained since kindergarten: Be nice, be kind, share, put on a smile. So we're conditioned to squash our natural selfish instincts, and that's the right thing for society.

Criminals thrive on society's understanding.

Society, by insisting on conventions, has merely insisted on certain convenient signs by which we may know that a man is considering, in daily life, the comfort of other people.

Criminals thrive on the indulgence of society's understanding.

The methods of the natural sciences cannot be applied to human behavior because this behaviorlacks the peculiarity that characterizes events in the field of the natural sciences, viz., regularity.

Mum once told Dad that vices are only vices when looked at through the frame of society.