Top 1200 Moral Behavior Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

What happened in the milliseconds before a behavior to cause it? That's in the neurobiological realm.

Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Most human beings, there's a spectrum of bad behavior.

My character and my behavior is not for politics. I say what I think. I'm too liberal.

It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.

My hobby is extreme Catholic behavior - before the Reformation.

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

But you know what? It's not my behavior I'm worried about anymore. It's yours.

A self is a repertoire of behavior appropriate to a given set of contingencies.

[Donald Trump] has a long record of engaging in racist behavior.

Taking faith seriously leads to the utility of altruistic behavior.

You can have me the way i am — bad behavior included — or not at all.

We all have unresolved shame, because it is used as a tool to control behavior.

That's all teaching is; arranging contingencies which bring changes in behavior.

What truly leads the evolutionary procession, in other words, is behavior.

Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace. He cannot be manipulated by religious and moral performance--he can only be reached through repentance, through the giving up of power. If we are saved by sheer grace we can only become grateful, willing servants of God and of everyone around us.

There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.

That's the problem with the United States. It believes it can control everybody's behavior.

I love animals and their behavior. I watch cat videos all the time.

I have a tendency to dip my foot in self-destructive behavior.

A CEO's behavior has a huge impact on managers down the line.

Eccentric behavior is not routinely noticed around a movie set.

We've got to put a lot of money into changing behavior.

Trying to act normal is the most unnatural behavior of all.

Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes.

Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

At the moment of insight, a potential pattern of organized behavior comes into being.

Art itself is essentially ethical; because every true work of art must have a beauty or grandeur of some kind, and beauty and grandeur cannot be comprehended by the beholder except through the moral sentiment. The eye is only a witness; it is not a judge. The mind judges what the eye reports to it; therefore, whatever elevates the moral sentiment to the contemplation of beauty and grandeur is in itself ethical.

In the greatest fiction, the writer's moral sense coincides with his dramatic sense, and I see no way for it to do this unless his moral judgement is part of the very act of seeing, and he is free to use it. I have heard it said that belief in Christian dogma is a hindrance to the writer, but I myself have found nothing further from the truth. Actually, it frees the storyteller to observe. It is not a set of rules which fixes what he sees in the world. It affects his writing primarily by guaranteeing his respect for mystery.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Disco satisfied social as well as musical needs. Disco people got to dress up all the time and go to places ... where everybody sort of 'looked good' - and later, after an evening of chemical alteration, everybody looked even better, and the next thing they knew, they were getting The Blox Job. Punk, in the late seventies, purported to be a rebellion against this sort of silly behavior. Maniac bands started thrashing away in dingy little places with no decor, developing their own silly behavior. ... New wave evolved from punk, basically, by sterilizing its own safety pin.

The rewards system is a powerful driver of behavior and therefore culture.

But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present.

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

The most perfect expression of human behavior is a string quartet.

CONSENSUS TERRORISM:The process that decides in- office attitudes and behavior.

Don't rationalize or internalize abusive behavior, because love doesn't hurt.

Incarceration is supposed to keep the community safe from your behavior.

Whoever alters a person's expectations changes his behavior.

Until you prove yourself, modeling the behavior of iconoclasts is dangerous.

The essence of illness is the freezing of behavior into unalterable and insatiable patterns.

Non virtuous behavior brings about unhappiness. Every time.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

Repentance is a change of behavior which invites forgiveness.

We do not consider patriotism desirable if it contradicts civilized behavior.

Behavior is a much better barometer of what you are than words.

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

I don't understand the rewarding of behavior that is less than classy. I don't get it.

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't make people be moral, but they believe it can end poverty. Neither group attempts to explain why government is so clumsy and destructive in one area but a paragon of efficiency and benevolence in the other.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Now as to the behavior of the soldiers: occupations always corrupt the occupiers.

You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.

Perpetrators absolve their harmful behavior as serving worthy causes.

The strongest rebellion may be expressed in quiet, undramatic behavior.

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.

Everything is explicable in the terms of the behavior of a small child.

I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet.

Whenever possible, the left and the Democrats have de-stigmatized irresponsible behavior.

Israel's behavior when it comes to Egypt is that of a battered wife. Nothing but apologies.