Quotes About Attitudes

Maybe not all boys were pains, just American boys.

As for mothers, many of them are for escorting their daughters to public places, because they themselves like racketing.

The story of women in antiquity should be told now, not only because it is a legitimate aspect of social history, but because the past illuminates contemporary problems in relationships between men and women. ... It is most significant to note the consistency with which some attitudes toward women and the roles women play in Western society have endured through the centuries.

Les françaises—particularly parisiennes, she stresses—perceive those of the same sex as rivals, not as potential friends.

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

True friends influence the personality and attitudes of their friends.

At present, likewise, there are among Christians new Stoics who think it a vice not only to groan and weep, but even to be sad or upset. And indeed, these ridiculous ideas generally come from idle men.

Man's view of the gorilla illustrates in a dramatic way the change from slaughter to conservation that distinguishes modern attitudes to wildlife. To nineteenth-century explorers and naturalists gorillas were evil.

Whether a distinction is invidious—rooted in harmful attitudes or ideas about a group and so likely to spread contempt—depends not on whether it's conduct- or status-based but on the reasoning behind it. Invidious distinctions are rooted in unfair, socially debilitating attitudes or ideas about people's worth, proper social status, abilities, or actions. By

As we have seen there is some kind of continuity in any case since every experience affects for better or worse the attitudes which help decide the quality of further experiences, by setting up certain preference and aversion, and making it easier or harder to act for this or that end.

It is [the teacher's] business to be on the alert to see what attitudes and habitual tendencies are being created. In this direction he[sic] must, if he is an educator, be able to judge what attitudes are actually conducive to continued growth and what are detrimental. He must, in addition, have that sympathetic understanding of individuals as individuals which gives him an idea of what is actually going on in the minds of those who are learning.

In my entire life I have only met four "perfect" people... and I disliked them all.

Substantial proportions of the population did not see health as the most important thing in life - and these were more likely to be people with more, rather than less, education.

That's what makes life so hard for women, that instead of thinking that this is the way things are, we always think it's the way we are.

present depressed state of the market for diamonds was "the result of the economy, changes in social attitudes and the promotion of competitive luxuries.

Silence heals grief and pain of the soul caused by bitter and ugly attitudes.

W]hat is always overlooked is that although the poor want to be rich, it does not follow that they either like the rich or that they in any way want to emulate their characters which, in fact, they despise. Both the poor and the rich have always found precisely the same grounds on which to complain about each other. Each feels the other has no manners, is disloyal, corrupt, insensitive - and has never put in an honest day's work in its life.

There is an emotion many HSPs seem to have that cannot be regulated away by the better attitudes discussed above. That is the depression that occurs when there is less sun, in winter or areas prone to clouds or rain.

El contenido político no se lo daban las palabras sino las actitudes. Yo ya no creo en las palabras. Los priístas usan un lenguaje revolucionario, emplean términos muy avanzados, y sin embargo un campesino, si palabras, sin lenguaje, con su sola actitud, es más revolucionario que todos nosotros juntos. Pablo Gómez, estudiante de la Escuela de Economía de la UNAM y de las Juventudes Comunistas

There are four kinds of people to avoid in the world: the assholes, the asswipes, the ass-kissers, and those that just will shit all over you.

personal privacy. That debate, a quaint twentieth-century one, is just ignorant background noise: the right to privacy is gone, lost already, or at least so compromised it's really worthless. No, the real present and future threat is manipulation, the inculcation of prescribed attitudes and modes of behavior into an unwitting citizenry, the unseen shift by the state from monitoring to control, the last chapter of the long tale of democracy, free will deformed into willing compliance.

The rich feel much less need than their predecessors to account for their wealth, whether to society, to governments or to God. Their attitudes and values are not seriously challenged by anyone. The respect now shown for wealth and money-making has been the most fundamental change in Britain over four decades.

E poi sapete com'è, succede che la parte che uno si assume diventa vera davvero, la vita è così brava a sclerotizzare le cose, e gli atteggiamenti diventano le scelte.

A husband who is truly good in all likelihood would not be liked by his wife because several evidence shows that a woman normally loves to have a bad man on her bed