People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
People who have little to do are excessive talkers.
Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
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.
Still people are dangerous.
Suppose that humans happen to be so constructed that they desire the opportunity for freely undertaken productive work. Suppose that they want to be free from the meddling of technocrats and commissars, bankers and tycoons, mad bombers who engage in psychological tests of will with peasants defending their homes, behavioral scientists who can't tell a pigeon from a poet, or anyone else who tries to wish freedom and dignity out of existence or beat them into oblivion.
The only normal people are the one's you don't know very well.
The test of one's behavior pattern; relationship to society, relationship to one's work, relationship to sex.
The wolf changes his coat, but not his disposition.
Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
To know what people really think, pay regard to what they do, rather than what they say.
We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do.
We like to see others, but don't like others to see through us.
What ever is the natural propensity of a person is hard to overcome. If a dog were made a king, he would still gnaw at his shoes laces.
What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?
What we are doing at the moment is more that just one thing added to the rest; it is a memoir.
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
With a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and with a fraud I try to be a fraud and a half.
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