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“Complex organisms cannot be construed as the sum of their genes, nor do genes alone build particular items of anatomy or behavior by themselves. Most genes influence several aspects of anatomy and behavior as they operate through complex interactions with other genes and their products, and with environmental factors both within and outside the developing organism. We fall into a deep error, not just a harmful oversimplification, when we speak of genes "for" particular items of anatomy or behavior.”

“You point out that war is only a symptom of the whole horrid business of human behavior, and cannot be isolated. And that, even if we abolish war, we shall not abolish hate and greed. So might it have been argued about slave emancipation, that slavery was but one aspect of human disgustingness, and that to abolish it would not end the barbarity that causes it. But did the abolitionists therefore waste their breath? And do we waste ours now in protesting against war?”

“Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.”

Humans Humanity Behavior Aspect Monsters Human Behavior

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“In contrast to our own social environment which brings out different aspects of human nature and often demonstrated that behavior which occurs almost invariably in individuals within our society is nevertheless due not to original nature but to social environment; and a homogeneous and simple development of the individual may be studied.”

Humans May Different Individual Social Simple Environment Human Nature Development Behavior Aspect Originals Dues Our Society Contrast Nevertheless Homogeneous Social Environment

Book:Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

Source: Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

“Dysfunctions can occur in each of the self-regulatory subfunctions-in how personal experiences are self-monitored and cognitively processed, in the evaluative self-standards that are adopted, and in the evaluative self-reactions to one's own behavior.. Problems at any one of these points can create self-dissatisfactions and dejection. dysfunctions in all aspects of the self system are most apt to produce the most chronic self-disparagement and despondency”

Self Problem Produce Behavior Standards Aspect Reactions Adopted Personal Experiences Dissatisfaction Dysfunction Self Efficacy Despondency Behavior Problems

Author:Albert Bandura

“I'm trying to understand how do we tell lies to ourselves to justify what we've done and what are the consequences of those lies? But actually maybe I also recognize that in turning empathy into a practice for many years, by turning, by forcing myself to separate at some level the humanity of a human being from his or her actions and recognizing that sometimes, even the moral aspects of a human being can contribute to immoral behavior.”

Trying Years Humans Sometimes Done Action Lying Humanity Human Beings Levels Moral Practice Behavior Empathy Consequence Aspect Justify Recognizing Immoral

Author:Joshua Oppenheimer

“I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.”

Ifs Knows Shows Animal Know How Behavior Aspect You Choose Primal

Author:Jake Gyllenhaal

“The aim of spiritual formation is not behavior modification but the transformation of all those aspects of you and me where behavior comes from...Circumcision of the heart.”

Heart Spiritual Behavior Aspect Transformation Aim Formation Modification Circumcision Spiritual Formation Behavior Modification

Author:Dallas Willard

“How difficult it was for a woman, once she was named by doctors, to become a writer, because many aspects of her behavior that are accepted in the genius or creative man are regarded as dangerous in the woman.”

Men Difficult Creative Dangerous Genius Behavior Aspect Doctors Accepted

Author:Kate Zambreno

“I'm interested in human behavior, and what happened in my family life is definitely not a unique story. There are aspects of that I'm sure you can see through the work. But I'm just looking for something that touches me.”

Humans Stories Life Is Happened Behavior Unique Aspect My Family Human Behavior Family Life Touch Me

Author:Charlize Theron

“I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect of medicine, which had links with psychology, aggression, behavior, and human affairs.”

Humans Important Wanted Sports Difficult Psychology Behavior Aspect Medicine Affair Athlete Links Aggression Intriguing Neurologists

Author:Roger Bannister

“What fascinates me about addiction and obsessive behavior is that people would choose an altered state of consciousness that's toxic and ostensibly destroys most aspects of your normal life, because for a brief moment you feel okay.”

People Feels States Moments Consciousness Behavior Normal Aspect Okay Addiction Toxic Altered Obsessive Normal Life States Of Consciousness Brief Moments Altered States Altered States Of Consciousness

Author:Moby

“For many people, one of the most frustrating aspects of life is not being able to understand other people's behavior.”

People Able Life Is Behavior Aspect Frustrating Aspects Of Life

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs, or "brainwashing," but rather the systematic manipulation of the most mundane aspects of human nature over time in confining settings.”

Source: The Lucifer Effect: How Good People Turn Evil

“Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behavior of the whole.”