Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare. — Larry Elder Copy Share Image
The rule of thumb is that if someone is able to be verbally or physically abusive, he or she is able to… — Edward T Welch Copy Share Image
The moment when you are most repelled by a child's behavior, that is your warning light to draw the very closest to… — Ann Voskamp Copy Share Image
Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior. — Thomas Nashe Copy Share Image
Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge. — Plato Copy Share Image
The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think AIDS can be won. I think we can win this fight. It is winnable. But it means behavior change. — Franklin Graham Copy Share Image
Evolution is a process that never stops. Baboons who fail to exhibit moral behavior do not survive; they wind up as meat… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
Modern 'public health' initiatives have moved well beyond what could reasonably be classified as public goods. Today, government undertakes all sorts of… — Radley Balko Copy Share Image
People's behavior will change with technology. I know very few young people who can't type out a text message on their phone… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
Conformities are called for much more eagerly today than yesterday... skeptics, liberals, individuals with a taste for private life and their own… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
“[Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low… — Randolph M. Nesse Copy Share Image
Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Almost every one of us interacts with the experience or sharing economy every day, and I'm proud that Rent the Runway has… — Jennifer Hyman Copy Share Image
Each of us contributes our own piece to the whole, each in our own way, each in our own time with the… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
If we hope to stem the mass destruction that inevitably attends our economic system (and to alter the sense of entitlement -… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think narcissists are endlessly watchable. The way they view the world and the way they interact within the world. They have… — Michael Showalter Copy Share Image
In our own time, through integrative sciences like ecology and animal behavior and psychology we have re-understood what was forgotten during the… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
I was a terrible student. Still, I managed to get into college, but my daydreaming threatened to sabotage me. I used behavior… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In the contemporary world, we think of politeness as surface behavior, like frosting - it's sweet and attractive and finishes off the… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
You thought you could fool me with what you say but just remember, actions speak louder than words. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm very disciplined, but the one thing that I have addictive behavior about is the Internet. — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
But the only possible guarantee of the future is responsible behavior in the present. — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
We always complain about others but MOSTLY people's behavior towards us is a mirror image of our own actions. — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
What our behavior is in life decides the directions our soul will travel, the paths it will move on, the new worlds… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
A beautiful behavior is better than a beautiful form; it gives a higher pleasure than statues or pictures; it is the finest… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was never born unfriendly or a rude person, your actions, attitude or behavior towards me made me who I am to… — Lawrence Mudau Copy Share Image
Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians. — F. F. Bruce Copy Share Image
A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that… — Melody Beattie Copy Share Image
It is easier to recognize the quality of leadership in the behavior of their followers than it is in the behavior of… — Kevin Lowe Copy Share Image
The most important thing parents can do, although it's not the only thing they should do, is model the behavior they want… — Angela Duckworth Copy Share Image
I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine. — Shaunie O'Neal Copy Share Image
A man's acts are partly determined by spontaneous impulse, partly by the conscious and unconscious effects of the various groups to which… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“When the mind is not spoilt, the speech is not spoilt, the conduct is not spoilt, that is absolute humility [param vinaya].” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I wholeheartedly agree that many media 'standards' can feel disingenuous or, in fact, be a cover for less-than-honest behavior. — Ryan Holiday Copy Share Image