“I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.” MenHumansPersonsBeliefViewsPowerfulAcceptingSubjectsAuthorityBehaviorCapacityIdealsDignityCommandRejectsConceptionProvidingAffirmationLaboratoryHuman Dignity Author:Stanley Milgram
“If there's any comparison between the compassion and decency of the American people and the terrorist tactics of extremists, it's flawed logic. It's just I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists who kill innocent women and children to achieve an objective.” PeopleIfsThinkingKindChildrenStatesActionAmericaUnitedCompassionAcceptingUnited StatesAchieveBehaviorLogicTerroristObjectivesInnocentIslamicComparisonUnited States Of AmericaTacticsFlawedDecencyExtremistIslamic Extremists Author:George W. Bush
“While it is very sturdy of comfortable men to point out that life is unfair, the people it is unfair to are not apt to be morally or philosophically elevated by the announcement. If you are going to preach that unfairness is inescapable for some, good sense suggests that you also accept the inevitability of beastly behavior by people who have to carry the burden.” PeopleIfsMenLife IsAcceptingBehaviorComfortableBurdenUnfairGood SenseInevitabilityAnnouncementsUnfairnessSturdyBeastlyLife Is Unfair Author:Russell Baker
“Historically, labor unions arose when people had gotten a taste of a different lifestyle and were willing to pay a lot more for their basic livelihood and had gotten into a fix they couldn't get out of - because they had accepted the unacceptable to begin with. Accepting something you have to form a labor union to fight after the fact only tells me that people were acting against their own best (or even good) interests for a long time. I don't see any rational, coherent explanation for this sort of behavior in humans, but it's all over the place.” PeopleHumansLongDifferentFactsFormFightingInterestPayActingAcceptingWillingTasteBehaviorLong TimeLaborUnionsAcceptedLifestyleRationalExplanationLivelihoodLabor UnionDifferent Lifestyles Author:Erik Naggum
“Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.” MindMaySeemsAcceptingBehaviorScientistToadsAmorous Book:The Alienist Source: The Alienist
“If you accept learning as a dominant determination of your behavior, then all of a sudden you're open to the idea that, for instance, there are other people who are more educated than you about the environment, who you will learn from. It's kind of like you don't even have to believe that you know anything about the environment, but you do have to understand that your behavior has been determined by learning in the past.” PeopleIfsKnowsBelieveKindHas BeensIdeasPastAcceptingEnvironmentLike YouBehaviorDeterminationDeterminedEducatedInstanceDominant Author:Greg Graffin
“I understand that we should never lose our right to be offended, so I accept it. But for me it was always a study of human behavior because if we just demonize it, it becomes unreal.” IfsShouldHumansLosesAcceptingStudyBehaviorHuman BehaviorOffendedUnreal Author:Wendell Pierce
“Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.” RealizingAcceptingBehaviorAccepting Yourself Author:David D. Burns