Quotes About Behavior

Morality therefore emerged as a consequence of certain aspects of human nature in response to social conditions.

Female monkeys, unaware that they are slaves to cultural stereotypes, like things with faces. Male monkeys, unaware that they are doing the bidding of human sexists, like things with moving parts.

men have killed men much more often – on average about ninety-seven times more often – than women have killed women.

if sympathy allows you to please yourself by pleasing others, are you being selfish or altruistic?

Imagine you are a deer. You have essentially only four things to do during the day: sleep, eat, avoid being eaten and socialise (by which I mean mark a territory, pursue a member of the opposite sex, nurse a fawn, whatever).

Every behavior is the product of an instinct trained by experience.

Male gorillas monopolise their mates, so their sperm meets no competitors; male chimpanzees share their mates, so each needs to produce large quantities of sperm and mate frequently to increase his chances of being the father. It also explains why male birds sing so hard when already 'married'. They are looking for 'affairs'.

Men cannot expect to do ill and fare well, but to find that done to them which they did to others.

Our lives change when our habits change.

I have to speak carefully now because I have this strange habit of imitating British people without even realizing that I'm doing it.

In my career, I've found that only annoying people knock on open doors.

And the civil state is the actual state that results from the attempt to build a bridge from the state of nature to the state of reason. Its aim is to induce naturally rebarbative human beings to behave as if they were reasonable.

You are not what you intend, you are what you do. Intention and action are separated by a chasm

Why. Do. People. Do. Stupid. Things. Because we're stupid, she said.

Do guys really believe that if they are the only male in the area that girls will suddenly crawl on top of them? Like we scavenge for lone survivors and reward them with group make-out sessions?

She didn't want him to have good qualities. Horrible people should be horrible all the time.

When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.

The action of naming an issue instead of evading it, was so unlike the usual behavior of all the men he knew, it was such a sudden, startling relief...

more wealth is desired even though above a certain level it has ceased to translate into greater reproduction; with effective contraception much the same applies to sexual success; power, status, honor, and fame -connected to the above- are still hotly pursued even though their reproductive significance has become ambivalent. It is the evolution-shaped proximate mechanisms -the web of desire- that dominate human behavior, even where much of their original adaptive rationale has weakened.

It has been found that so called tomboy behavior in girls correlated closely with higher levels of testosterone. On the other side, low testosterone levels in males result in unassertive and 'feminine' behavior, whereas the highest levels of testosterone to which men are exposed during adolescence result in extra aggressiveness.

People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves.

Conservatives may be right when they argue that the government should not try to determine executive pay packages. But conservatives should at least be willing to speak out against unseemly behavior in corporate boardrooms with the same moral force, the same sense of outrage that they direct against dirty rap lyrics.

there's good crazy and bad crazy

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit." — Attributed to Aristotle