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“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.”

Men Humans Persons Belief Views Powerful Accepting Subjects Authority Behavior Capacity Ideals Dignity Command Rejects Conception Providing Affirmation Laboratory Human 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.”

“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.”

People Ifs Men Life Is Accepting Behavior Comfortable Burden Unfair Good Sense Inevitability Announcements Unfairness Sturdy Beastly Life 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.”

“Scientists' minds may jump around like amorous toads, but they do seem to accept such behavior in one another.”

Mind May Seems Accepting Behavior Scientist Toads Amorous

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.”

People Ifs Knows Believe Kind Has Beens Ideas Past Accepting Environment Like You Behavior Determination Determined Educated Instance Dominant

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.”

Ifs Should Humans Loses Accepting Study Behavior Human Behavior Offended Unreal

Author:Wendell Pierce

“Accept yourself. But realize your behaviors can be bad.”

Realizing Accepting Behavior Accepting Yourself

Author:David D. Burns

“Loving ourselves is about acceptance, not always liking and feeling comfortable. In the same way I love my fiancé, I love him but don't always like his behavior. I don't always like what he says. But I accept him. I accept him because of these things. It doesn't mean I don't want our relationship to grow or progress. But I don't feel the need to change him. When I accept him for him, we grow naturally, and the same for our own self-love.”

Mean Feelings Accepting Progress Acceptance Behavior Our Relationship I Love Him

Author:Danielle Tabor

“Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal.”

Problem Accepting Behavior Ill Acknowledge Hopeful Cynicism

Author:Stephen Colbert

“The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.”

Pain Lying Desire Responsibility Accepting Behavior Consequence Difficulty Accepting Responsibility

Book:The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

Source: The Road Less Traveled, 25th Anniversary Edition: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values, and Spiritual Growth

“Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.”

Way Humanity Accepting Steps Crazy Behavior Faults Who We Are Contradiction Meant To Be Primitive Steps Forward

Author:Colin Quinn

“A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.”

Choices Growth Accepting Economic Behavior Ethics Environmental Population Economic Growth

Book:Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

Source: Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

“However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.”

Giving May Moments Happens Difficult Accepting Possibility Behavior Radical That Moment Radical Change

Book:Warrior of the Light -

Source: Warrior of the Light -