Quotes About Behavior

When Europe dominated, there were no or few feedback loops. Or, to put it another way, there were few, if any, consequences for its behaviour towards the non-western world: relations were simply too unequal.

I consider your conduct unethical and lousy.

I wouldn't suggest that being resourceful has anything to do with doing something illegal or unethical, but I've definitely noticed a pattern of being 'creative.'

Above all, a well-imagined story is organized around extraordinary human behaviors and unexpected and startling events, which help illuminate the commonplace and the ordinary.

Since all political parties blame the others for the economic mess, it is unfair to attribute unemployment to individual behaviour.

Of course, you wouldn't want to re-create the era of aristocracy; it was a totally unfair era. The finer aspects of it were admirable, and so there's nostalgia for that: the behavior, the values, the cultural sensitivities.

I've never been unfaithful outside 'Made In Chelsea.' I don't care what the reputation looks like. I was unfaithful on that television show because it's a show about that. I'm not saying it was acceptable behavior, but the show wouldn't work without relationships failing. In real life it's completely different.

For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.

The properties of people and the properties of character have almost nothing to do with each other. They really don't. I know it seems like they do because we look alike, but people don't speak in dialogue. Their lives don't unfold in a series of scenes that form a narrative arc.

It's so unfortunate because people have become so comfortable being mean.

It's unfortunate, you know, that you can't change people's - habits, their personal habits.

We have looked into the general problems with adoption in the United States, and we discovered - on the basis of the reports written by American NGOs - we discovered that not only Russians but kids from other countries and the American-born kids have been subject to very unfortunate behavior on the part of their adopted parents.

Unfortunately, chivalry seems to be on the decline, but let's hope that manners can remain important. I, for one, will certainly be an evangelist with it.

We've all lost our temper at some time. Unfortunately, not all of us have done it in a public setting.

Unfortunately, we don't educate drivers enough to be respectful on the road.

Selfishness, if but reasonably tempered with wisdom, is not such an evil trait.

To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean.

The worst type of freedom we are suffering from in modern times is the freedom to lead an immoral life.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.

The folly and wisdom of men starts when they stop thinking and start acting.

Human psychology is the most mysterious thing in the world.

Any society which enjoins its members to adhere to both of these (politeness and truth) is a fraud.

Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed".