Civilized Behavior Quotes

• Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . .

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  Sigmund Freud

  Religious   Fear   Civilization  

  Sigmund Freud (1973). “Abstracts of the Standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud”

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• Becoming more flexible, open-minded, having a capacity to deal with change is a good thing. But it is far from the whole story. Grandparents, in the absence of the social institutions that once demanded civilized behavior, have their work cut out for them. Our grandchildren are hungry for our love and approval, but also for standards being set.

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  Eda LeShan

  Cutting   Grandchildren   Grandparent  

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• Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

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  Robert Reich

  Bully   Hallmark   Civilized Society  

  "Break the Koch Machine" by Robert Reich, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 27, 2014.

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• No matter how civilized we are and how much society has curbed violent behavior. Human beings still have the same genes they had 10,000 years ago. Our bodies are designed to have a certain amount of physical stress and violence in them. We're designed to run from jaguars and fight to defend our territory.

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  Joe Rogan

  Running   Stress   Fighting  

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• Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

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  Judith Martin

  Order   Missing   Logic  

  Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't overlook the significance of your smallest opportunities for civilized behavior throughout each day. The future has no bigger moments than we experience right now. The world changes for the better with every act of kindness, and for the worse with every act of cruelty. The future is nothing grander than the very next moment, and it arrives solely from the present.

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  Bo Lozoff

  Kindness   Opportunity   Each Day  

  Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.96, Penguin

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• The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.

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  Paul Theroux

  Compassion   Behavior   Civilized  

  Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Cape Town”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  Patriotism   Literature   Behavior  

  "Romulus the Great" by Friedrich Durrenmatt, act I, 1956.

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• Music is nothing else but wild sounds civilised into time and tune.

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  Thomas Fuller

  Music   Singing   Sound  

  "The History of the Worthies of England". Volume 1,

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• 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.

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  Ayn Rand

  Believe   Men   Animal  

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