Behavior Quotes

Rather than dividing the world between good and evil, the Left divided the world in terms of economics. Economic classes, not moral values, explained human behavior. Therefore, to cite a common example, poverty, not one's moral value system, or lack of it, caused crime.

A country should be defended not by arms, but by ethical behavior.

Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.

Any story you've heard of my behavior is probably true.

I see a lot of patterns in our behavior as a nation that parallel a lot of other historical processes.

To reject even one major tenet of the religion or to violate one major rule of behavior is enough to get one kicked out - or worse.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.

It is always easier - and usually far more effective - to focus on changing your behavior than on changing the behavior of others.

Money is not our primary aim. Changing the behavior and the practice of the gun industry is.

I try as best I can to enter the realm of nuances of human behavior.

Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.

Whenever we seek to avoid the responsibility for our own behavior, we do so by attempting to give that responsibility to some other individual or organization or entity. But this means we then give away our power to that entity.

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.

Almost nothing is known from hybridization studies about the inheritance of courtship behavior of females, or of their responsiveness to particular male signals.

A lot of the interesting issues and dynamics within a city occur over things such as socio-economic issues or ethnic issues. But they require a much more elaborate model of human behavior.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Most good actors have a huge intelligence about the human condition and a real open heart to different kinds of people and behavior.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

When you take a drug to treat high blood pressure or diabetes, you have an objective test to measure blood pressure and the amount of sugar in the blood. It is straight-forward. With autism, you are looking for changes in behavior.

People are complicated. Our behavior towards one another is strange. So I like opportunities to investigate that.

But some actors I have met possess an intelligence that I can only dream of. It's about character, it's about behavior. They understand things about people that I simply don't see.

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.

We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.

Which, the first meeting with anybody is, you know, everybody is on their best behavior. It's only after you get to know them for a while that you figure out.

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.

What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.

Making a film of a work you've played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera you've worked out the behavior and life of a character.

Human education is concerned with certain changes in the intellects, characters and behavior of men, its problems being roughly included under these four topics: Aims, materials, means and methods.