Quotes About Behavior

Irritability was an occupational disease. Intolerant and intolerable belong in the same category.

Human behavior is timeless.

History never repeats itself," said Voltaire; "man always does." Thucydides, of course, made that principle the justification of his work.

Everything one has a right to do is not best to be done.

That vexing problem of war presented by the refusal of the enemy to behave as expected in his own best interest beset them.

Why, since folly or perversity is expected of individuals, should we expect anything else from government?

Do you ask, then, what will educate your son? Your example will educate him.

We may be as good as we please, if we please to be good.

Sharks don't kill because they're poor, criminal, insane, or repressed. A shark kills because it's a shark.

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

What makes humans special is our need to rationalize our actions.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

Don't crap where you eat

There's a difference between what you'll do in your mind and what you'll actually do for real.

we have a tendency to look around at what others are doing and use them as a standard of comparison.

But clearly, the lesson is that incentives can be a dangerous weapon. A critic of this research might say that the problem is not incentives, but dumb incentives. No doubt, some incentives are dumber than others. But no incentives can ever be smart enough to substitute for people who do the right thing because it's the right thing.

Wickedness is too common in the world for us to think much of why and wherefore. It is more natural to ask about the rarer thing and wonder why people sometimes do good.

Is man a savage at heart, skinned o'er with fragile Manners? Or is savagery but a faint taint in the natural man's gentility, which erupts now and again like pimples on an angel's arse?

My mother says I should be nice to everyone. Either school was different when she was young or she just doesn't remember.

Cats will be clean in a pigsty while pigs will be dirty in a marble hall.

To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true.

I know I was drugged but that is still no excuse. Why do they want to do things like that?

You have all these different reality shows, all social media, all these different things where people have to act a certain way to get attention.

Now we've gotten accustomed to reality shows where the goal is to see people acting foolish.