Quotes About Behavior

I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.

The thing about a violent kid is that he can't play imaginatively.

What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.

The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.

Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.

When I was a kid, I saw 'Rambo First Blood', and the next day, I took knives to school and threw them at everybody. So I was definitely influenced by violent films before 'Drive.'

It doesn't feel good to be a horrible, violent, misogynist person.

I think children are really violent with each other often.

Somehow, we have to realize that what we watch and what we listen to not only often reflects our most violent tendencies but cultivates more violence.

Individuals who have demonstrated serious violent behaviour or have been involved in gang activity have forfeited the right to ever be trusted to own a firearm.

To me violence, once you've done one violent act it leads to another, it leads to another, it leads to another, it becomes routine.

It's just becoming more acceptable for girls to react violently.

Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

When you loot or behave violently, you give grounds to those that try to justify illegal police abuse. You become the poster child for them to say, 'See, we have no choice but to shoot and kill, or use a chokehold, because just look at the way they behave.'

I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?

Knowledge is not a guarantee of good political behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

It's been well documented how we start to believe in our virtual or digital selves more than our real selves, but it's strange to think that human behaviour hasn't really changed at all since that legend was created.

Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist.

I just like being a social experiment sometimes. I really should not be allowed in public. But I just go out into the public just to see people's reaction. The thing is, I can do anything I want, virtually, within reason, just to see people's reaction.

I am convinced now that virtually every destructive behavior and addiction I battled off and on for years was rooted in my (well-earned) insecurity.

The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts.

Modesty is the color of virtue.

Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.