Behaviour Quotes

399 quotes by 342 authors

The task of neural science is to explain behaviour in terms of the activities of the brain. How does the brain marshall its millions of… — Eric Kandel
The bonding of women that is woman-loving, or Gyn/affection, is very different from male bonding. Male bonding has been the glue of male dominance. It… — Sheila Jeffreys
Radical feminist theorists do not seek to make gender a bit more flexible, but to eliminate it. They are gender abolitionists, and understand gender to… — Sheila Jeffreys
In 1917 European history, in the old sense, came to an end. World history began. It was the year of Lenin and Woodrow Wilson, both… — A J P Taylor
Modern economics is a set of formal models and equations purporting to fully determine human behaviour, at least in the economic realm. And there is… — Murray Rothbard
The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed. They are drawn to spikes and pentagrams,… — Adam Parfrey
The big lie perpetrated on Western society is the idea of womenâ€™s inferiority, a lie so deeply ingrained in our social behaviour that merely to… — Molly Haskell
At the World Food Programme we have recognized what a valuable tool food aid can be in changing behaviour. In so many poorer countries food… — Catherine Bertini
As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbour multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an… — Damian Thompson
What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves. — John Naughton
Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than… — Jane Austen
You have to know human behaviour â€¦ And the quality of your writing is absolutely capped at your understanding of human behaviour. Youâ€™ll never write… — Tony Gilroy
For the first time in history we can track the evolution of a pandemic in real time. Influenza viruses are notorious for their rapid mutation… — Margaret Chan
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence, and… — Herman E. Daly
The pleasures of sin exist. We cannot deny them. But we also dare not deny what follows in their wake: a voracious appetite, inflamed with… — Edwin Louis Cole
Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds… — Marvin Harris
Freedom is the only style. That is why I never speak about beauty or beautiful products but 'good products'. Nowadays, we have so many challenges;… — Philippe Starck
In the early Buddhist view, then, a persons identity resides not in an enduring self but in his actions (karma)- that is in the choices… — Joanna Macy
The behaviour of lovers is oscillating like the moon, and unpredictable as the weather... — Bernd Schuster
No, ordinary behaviour. The efficient half eats the less efficient half and grows stronger. War is just a violent way of doing what half the… — Alasdair Gray

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