Quotes About Behavior

There is no man doth a wrong for the wrong's sake; but thereby to purchase himself profit, or pleasure, or honour, or the like. There, why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature, why, yet it is but like the thorn or briar, which prick and scratch, because they can do no other.

There is in human nature generally, more of the fool than of the wise; and therefore those faculties, by which the foolish part of men's minds is taken, are most potent.

Human beings... are far too prone to generalize from one instance. The technical word for this, interestingly enough, is superstition.

The Thai and Chinese cases, as well as the nineteenth-century European ones, suggest that the size of the middle class relative to the rest of the society is one important variable in determining how it will behave politically.

Os economistas baseiam toda uma teoria de comportamento social nesta premissa individualista. A teoria económica da ação coletiva defende que os indivíduos se agregam em grupos sobretudo como um meio de maximizar os seus próprios interesses individuais e não por qualquer motivo de sociabilidade natural.

What differed were conditions of climate and geography that, operating on the biology of otherwise indistinguishable individuals, produced systematic differences in political behavior. Slavery for him was not natural and needed to be explained in terms of the ability of certain societies to better organize themselves for war and conquest.

As instituições financeiras comportam-se de modo muito diferente do que as empresas na economia real. Ao contrário de uma companhia de manufatura, um grande banco de investimento é sistemicamente perigoso e se correr riscos excessivos pode acarretar custos enormes à economia no seu todo.

Natural sociability can be overridden by the development of new institutions that provide incentives for other types of behavior (for example, favoring a qualified stranger over a genetic relative), but it constitutes a form of social relationship to which humans always revert when such alternative institutions break down.

Uno de los hallazgos claros de la economía conductual experimental es que las personas son mucho más sensibles a las pérdidas que a las ganancias.

Bu daha çok Stephen Jay Gould'?n spandrellerine benzer; bir unsur belirli bir nedenle evrimleÅŸmiÅŸ ama insan?n bütününün bir parças? haline geldiÄŸinde önemli baÅŸka bir amaca hizmet etmeye baÅŸlam??t?r. () Ä°nsan?n politik davran???, ortaya ç?k??? yönünden doÄŸal olsa bile, onun öncülleri olan hayvan sosyalliÄŸine de hayvan diline de indirgenemez.

Human beings cooperate to compete and compete to cooperate.

Religion and politics must therefore be seen as drivers of behavior and change in their own right, not as by-products of grand economic forces. THE

The shame that arises from praise which we do not deserve often makes us do things we should otherwise never have attempted.

nature or nurture' said the professor. 'Whichever way the parents are to blame

1. Man is a MORAL animal. 2. You can get human beings to do anything — IF you convince them it is moral. 3. You can convince human beings anything is moral.

What role models do kids have nowadays?Some ridiculously overpaid footballer prone to childish tantrums?The morons in the Big Brother house,perhaps? Or maybe the various gun-toting rappers who regularly delight us with their expletive-ridden vocabulary and eccentric attitude to women?

Let's get one thing straight:when gangs of youth throw stones at passing cars,shout abuse at innocent people going about their daily business or beat up random passers-by,they are not doing it 'because there is nothing to do' they are doing it because it's fun and in modern day, punishment-free Britain, there is no reason for them not to.

This is a recurring theme in schools: if you are quiet, well-behaved and fairly bright you will be ignored, whereas if you are a lunatic who shuts up for five minutes you will be handsomely rewarded. #

Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either. They keep you.

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

10. Appreciate that character is the result of conduct. As Aristotle taught us, we know people primarily by what they do. What others say about them, or what they say about themselves, may or may not be true.

It is entirely possible that you get unpredictable behavior out of predictable rules.

Sin in this country has been always said to be rather calculating than impulsive.

McTeague's mind was as his body, heavy, slow to act, sluggish. Yet there was nothing vicious about the man.