Top 1200 Civilized Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 19

In civilized society external advantages make us more respected. A man with a good coat upon his back meets with a better reception than he who has a bad one. You may analyze this and say, What is there in it? But that will avail you nothing, for it is a part of a general system.

With all my heart I believe that the world's present system of sovereign nations can only lead to barbarism, war and inhumanity, and that only world law can assure progress towards a civilized peaceful community.

Only humans invent moralizing gods who monitor our behavior.

I'm telling Palestinians don't use violence. We're going to use the civilized means of international law to achieve our goals, our independence, our freedom.

That the will of the people can be established by voting for democrats is, of course, a delusion. Yet when considering a non-threatening system for deciding between diverse interests, then voting, of course, can be regarded as a humane and civilized process.

When you're the victim of the behavior, it's black and white; when you're the perpetrator, there are a million shades of gray.

Tempura chefs are sort of like the Jedi of the cooking world: They must deftly perform with the utmost skill and precision, using extremely dangerous tools, all while maintaining a calm, serene demeanor. It is an elegant technique, from a more civilized time.

Regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

We must open our eyes and see that modern civilization has become so complex and the lives of civilized men so interwoven with thelives of other men in other countries as to make it impossible to be in this world and out of it.

Victory may now require a level of force deemed objectionable by civilized peoples, meaning that some, for justifiable reasons, may be reluctant to pursue it. But victory has not become an ossified concept altogether.

Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

What could be more interesting to students than their own behavior and that of others?

Hard to believe that so nearby, just across the Channel, such atrocities could still occur in their supposedly civilized world, that one could wake up one morning and find oneself bereft of brothers, parents, friends, all with the slice of an ax.

I want you to know, at this very moment, I am simulating normal human behavior.

People here always said to me, 'Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji?' Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

There is nothing settled in manners, but the laws of behavior yield to the energy of the individual.

The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

People here always said to me, Why would you leave civilization to go to a place like Fiji? Fiji is a far more civilized place than California or New York City.

The attitude is very important. Because, your behavior radiates how you feel.

Drunken behavior will not be tolerated, except by those who are being hilarious.

Like anyone nostalgic for a time he didn't live through, I chose to weed out the little inconveniences: polio, say, or the thought of eating stewed squirrel. The world was simply grander back then, somehow more civilized, and nicer to look at.

When people can say to themselves - "What I'm doing is justified," there is little chance of their modifying a behavior.

I'm intrigued by how ordinary behavior exists so close beside its opposite.

I stand by all the women who have had to deal with inappropriate behavior of any sort.

To rescue people from the natural consequences of their behavior is to render them powerless.

It's hard to tell writers, especially in movies, that words are secondary. Behavior is important.

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws; and every step of intestine discord was marked by some deplorable victory of savage man over civilized society.

I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior

I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'

Secret Societies have existed among all peoples, savage and civilized, since the beginning of recorded history... It is beyond question that the secret societies of all ages have exercised a considerable degree of political influence.

Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward.

Wine makes every meal an occasion, every table more elegant, every day more civilized.

The best things cannot be told, the second best are misunderstood. After that comes civilized conversation; after that, mass indoctrination; after that, intercultural exchange.

I'm not that worried about war. Insecurity is the word I would use - insecurity and tension and conflict. I thought civilized people had abandoned wars. Sometimes people don't make rational decisions.

I have made so many mistakes in life, my temper and behavior all this doesn't do any good to anyone.

For when a nation becomes civilized, if it does not drop human sacrifices altogether, it at least selects as victims only such wretches as would be put to death at any rate. Thus the killing of a god may sometimes come to be confounded with the execution of a criminal.

En ge ne ral, plus un peuple est civilise , poli, moins ses moeurs sont poe tiques; tout s'affaiblit en s'adoucissant. Ingeneral, themore civilized and refinedthepeople, the less poetic are its morals; everything weakens as it mellows.

For the individual, education is the path to achievement and fulfillment; for the nation, it is a path to a society that is not only free but civilized; and for the world, it is the path to peace - for it is education that places reason over force.

No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature.

If you're capable of despising your own behavior, you might just love yourself.

The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.

If everybody's behavior can be explained by simple stupidity and greed, there's no point in assuming a conspiracy.

Lying, cheating, hiding is the exact opposite of the behavior of a man who's really into you.

Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

When I observe other animals, I understand their behavior. I can't say the same for mankind.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushes into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'

The more equality women have, the fairer, more civilized and tolerant society will be. Sexual equality is a lot more effective against terrorism than military strength.

More errors arise from inhibited indecision than from impulsive behavior.

Yes, because a vampire slumber party is the pinnacle of safety conscious behavior.

Education should therefore include the two forms of work, manual and intellectual, for the same person, and thus make it understood by practical experience that these two kinds complete each other and are equally essential to a civilized existence.

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

We're supposed to be civilized. We're supposed to go to work every day. We're supposed to be nice to our friends and send Christmas cards to our parents.

The orbs create feedback loops that can influence either personal of employee behavior.

I don't always like my own behavior. I haven't known anyone who is perfect all the time.

The contradictions are what make human behavior so maddening and yet so fascinating, all at the same time.

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

It seems to me that the god that is commonly worshipped in civilized countries is not at all divine, though he bears a divine name, but is the overwhelming authority and respectability of mankind combined. Men reverence one another, not yet God.

I don't actually believe in a clash of civilizations. I believe in a clash of the civilized and the noncivilized.