Quotes About Behavior

we can't control what other people do,

you teach men how to treat you.

It might sound strange, it might sound irrational, but in extraordinary situations people often behave in extraordinary ways. Elaborate conspiracy theories are just an attempt to bring order to the chaos of life. Reality is frequently much stranger.

the father figure was perhaps physically, and definitely emotionally, absent when the boy was in his latency phase. As a boy, therefore, the serial killer had no positive father figure with whom to identify.

Because of the fact that they failed in their socialisation process, serial killers treat their victims as mere objects that exist for the gratification of their own needs. They show no empathy for the victim.

Stewart Wilken is an example of a serial killer who fixated during the oral phase. He was abandoned, and as a result deprived of being breastfed by his mother. His basic needs as an infant regarding hunger and security were grossly neglected. The oral fixation manifested already as a toddler when he bit anyone who angered him, including his adoptive mother. This is a example of oral sadism.

this person must also have a weak ego, virtually no superego and a domineering id, which means that the fantasy will not be inhibited but will be acted out.

It takes a person about twenty years to develop into a serial killer. The process commences during the first five years of his life, whereafter he nurtures the most horrendous sexual and aggressive fantasies in which other human beings are subjugated to mere objects.

when a man is sexually abused as a child, he will take it out on others, while a woman will tend to take it out on herself.

serial killers act out their fantasies. They have no conscience to inhibit them.

the serial killer has no positive father figure with whom to identify during the latency period and he does not manage the socialisation process, and therefore does not develop a superego, or develops only faint traces of a superego.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it."

Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

No better than she should be.

Azi ii lumea rea si femeile-s fudule.

There was a time when it was admirable to be an amateur poet or a dilettante scientist, because it meant that the quality of life could be improved by engaging in such activities. But increasingly the emphasis has been to value behavior over subjective states; what is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance rather than the quality of experience.

But increasingly the emphasis has been to value behavior over subjective states; what is admired is success, achievement, the quality of performance rather than the quality of experience. Consequently it has become embarrassing to be called a dilettante, even though to be a dilettante is to achieve what counts most—the enjoyment one's actions provide. It