Quotes About Behavior

We are responsible for our behavior, not that of our group, nor that of our ancestors. The arc of the universe does indeed bend toward justice, as King claimed, and we thus dishonor the sacrifices of our forebears when we suggest things are as bad or worse today than before the 1964 Civil Rights Act.

The American people are capable of distinguishing between stigmatizing fentanyl use without stigmatizing the sick person who is using fentanyl. The person requires our compassion, but the behavior requires our condemnation.

The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors--how we exercise, what we eat--is the key to adding years and quality to our lives.

I'm not sure what a good person is, exactly. On the one hand, it could be someone who always play by the rules. But someone can follow the rules and still be a real jerk, you know? In fact, some of the biggest idiots I know are people who follow the rules, usually because they make you feel like crap when you don't.

Understanding your dog and knowing how to control him, develop his potentials, and resolve behavior problems, emotional conflicts and frustrations are no less essential than love and respect.

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

The customs and practices of life in society sweep us along.

Natural inclinations are assisted and reinforced by education, but they are hardly ever altered or overcome.

There is nothing more unsociable than man, and nothing more sociable: unsociable by his vice, sociable by his nature.

Profiting little by good examples, I make use of those that are ill, which are everywhere to be found: I endeavor to render myself as agreeable as I see others offensive; as constant as I see others fickle; as affable as I see others rough; as good as I see others evil: but I propose to myself impracticable measures.

have seen no other effects in rods but to make children's minds more remiss or more maliciously headstrong.

Gjør vi ikke oss selv til dyr når vi kaller den handling som skaper oss dyrisk?

Det er en kjedelig uvane som særlig går ut over damene, å måtte låne ut leppene til hvem som helst som har tre tjenere på slep, uansett hvor frastøtende han er.

Våre forfedre oppdro sine døtre til å oppføre seg bluferdig og fryktsomt (følelsene og driftene var de samme), vi oppdrar dem til selvsikkerhet - vi forstår oss ikke på det i det hele tatt. Det passer for de sarmatiske kvinnene som ikke har lov til å ligge med en mann før de egenhendig har drept en annen mann i krig.

Le nature sanguinarie nei riguardi degli animali rivelano una naturale inclinazione alla crudeltà

That was the sort of thing crazy people did—instinctively choosing the experiences that confirmed their own negative attitudes.

The judges of normality are present everywhere. We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the social worker-judge; it is on them that the universal reign of the normative is based; and each individual, wherever he may find himself, subjects to it his body, his gestures, his behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements.

People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don't know is what what they do does.

la conveniencia de las actitudes esquiva los cuerpos, la decencia de las palabras blanquea los discursos

Faced with these mutations, we no doubt need to be invent-ing unimaginable novelties, far outside the obsolete frameworks that still format our behaviors, our medias, and our projects—all of which are being drowned in the society of the spectacle.

Mean girls actually grew up to become extremely hateful women.

The guilty always find a way of rationalizing their behavior, making it sound as though they've done you a favor.

Michelle felt that if people didn't like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently.

Social animals, on the other hand, are more intelligent than those with just a reptilian brain.