Quotes About Behavior

Environmentalists, by and large, are very deeply invested in tactics that have worked to their satisfaction over the last thirty years, namely scaring and shaming people.... I am questioning whether you can go on doing that indefinitely ... [pushing] that same fear-guilt button over and over again. As psychologists will tell you, when a client comes in with an addiction, they are already ashamed. You don't shame them further.

nation and the Framers of the Constitution. They were sufficiently worried about corporate power that they didn't even include in the Constitution the word corporation, intending instead that the states tightly regulate corporate behavior (which the states did quite well until just after the Civil War).

But I absolutely believe that architecture is a social activity that has to do with some sort of communication or places of interaction, and that to change the environment is to change behaviour.

Sometimes my sin is not what I do; it also describes what I don't do when I know I should.

We shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done; not how well we have spoken but how well we have lived.

human behaviour lie not only in the past but in man's ability to contemplate the future, or estimate probabilities:

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

with that very large part of mankind who have religion enough to make them uneasy when they do wrong, and not religion enough to keep them from doing wrong, he followed a very different system.

At a dinner which a wealthy Alderman gave to some of the leading members of the government, the Lord Treasurer and the Lord Chancellor were so drunk that they stripped themselves almost stark naked, and were with difficulty prevented from climbing up a signpost to drink His Majesty's health.

All human beings must perform according to their nature.

To be immoral, you must first subscribe to some conventional morality.... You cannot do wrong until you have first done right.

The only way to reform some people is to chloroform them.

Numerous social phenomena display cyclical behavior, either in wave motion or in surges. The thermostat reminds us to look for the time lag, or for an accumulated inventory like the hot water.

What is common to all of these examples is the way people's behavior depends on how many are behaving a particular way, or how much they are behaving that way—how many attend the seminar how frequently

Thought is the parent of the deed.

If you don't wish a man to do a thing you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

Any the smallest alteration of my silent daily habits produces anarchy in me

The thoughts they had were the parents of the actions they did; their feelings were parents of their thoughts:

Our 'superior morality' is properly rather an 'inferior criminality' produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

a sadist is a masochist who follows the golden rule