Quotes About Behavior

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Fanatics will never learn that, though it be written in letters of gold across the sky. It is the prohibition that makes anything precious

The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large.

Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater.

It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep and never to refrain when awake.

If there is one thing in the world that will make a man peculiarly and insufferably self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day it sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick.

Now, children, I want you all to sit up just as straight and pretty as you can and give me all your attention for a minute or two. There - that is it. That is the way good little boys and girls should do. I see one little girl who is looking out of the window - I am afraid she thinks I am out there somewhere - perhaps up in one of the trees making a speech to the little birds. [Applausive titter.]

We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us.

I reck'n I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain' no sense in sich doin's as dat.

If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different.

Manners! he said. Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction. The castle is done. Do you like it?

No brute ever does a cruel thing—that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense.

The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker. The result to the other person concerned is about the same: that is, he is made to suffer.

Spare the rod and spile the child, as the Good Book says. I'm a laying up sin and suffering for us both, I

And she took snuff, too; of course that was all right, because she done it herself. Her

I could see he meant no offense, but in my thoughts I set it down as not very good manners. Manners! he said. Why, it is merely the truth, and truth is good manners; manners are a fiction.

Ä°nsan bir bukalemundur; doÄŸas?n?n yasas? gereÄŸi, bulunduÄŸu yerin rengini al?r. Çevresindeki etkiler onun tercihlerini, kaç?nd??? ÅŸeyleri, politikas?n?, beÄŸenilerini, ahlak?n?, dinini yarat?r.

Zihnin ahlaki aksam? yap?s? uyar?nca, özgürce ÅŸu veya bu eylemde bulunur ve zihnin bu konuya iliÅŸkin duygular?na bir hayli kay?ts?z kal?r - yani, kal?rd?, eÄŸer zihnin herhangi bir duygusu olsayd?; ki yoktur. Zihin sadece bir termometredir: s?cakl??? ve soÄŸukluÄŸu gösterir, ikisi hakk?nda da daha fazlas?n? umursamaz.

La crueldad es monopolio de quienes poseen el sentido moral. Cuando un bruto inflige un dolor, lo hace de un modo inocente, no comete una mala acción; para el bruto no existe el mal. Y

The average human being is a perverse creature; and when he isn't that, he is a practical joker.

By what right has the dog come to be regarded as a noble animal? The more brutal and cruel and unjust you are to him the more your fawning and adoring slave he becomes; whereas, if you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward--you will never get her full confidence again.

So we poked along back home, and I warn't feeling so brash as I was before, but kind of ornery, and humble, and to blame, somehow—though I hadn't done nothing. But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway .

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