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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

“It is now generally accepted that the roots of our ethics lie in patterns of behavior that evolved among our pre-human ancestors, the social mammals and that we retain within our biological nature elements of these evolved responses. We have learned considerably more about this responses, and we are beginning to to understand how they interact with our capacity to reason.”

Humans Reason Lying Social Behavior Elements Ethics Capacity Roots Response Patterns Accepted Ancestor Mammals

Book:The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

Source: The Expanding Circle: Ethics, Evolution, and Moral Progress

“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.”

Ifs Thinking Humans Wells Form Choices Belief Sex Term Failing Succeed Members Behavior Normal Capacity Human Behavior Capacity To Love Bisexuality Human Capacity

Author:Margaret Mead

“Clearly, the Scripture tells us that we lack the capacity to grasp God's infinite mind or the way He intervenes in our lives. How arrogant of us to think otherwise! Trying to analyze His omnipotence is like an amoeba attempting to comprehend the behavior of man.”

Thinking Men Way Trying Mind Our Lives Behavior Capacity Infinite Scripture Arrogant Attempting Omnipotence Amoeba

Book:When God Doesn't Make Sense

Source: When God Doesn't Make Sense

“Human beings are distinguished by a capacity for experience as well as by their behavior, and homosexuality is as much a matter ofemotion as of genital manipulation.... As we each examine our own sense of identity we realize how much more complex is the question of homosexuality than a mere Kinsey-like computation of orgasms.”

Humans Wells Matter Realizing Human Beings Identity Behavior Capacity Mere Complexes Manipulation Homosexuality Distinguished Computation Kinsey

Book:Homosexual; oppression and liberation

Source: Homosexual; oppression and liberation

“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.”

“I think people have the capacity to be many different things and many seemingly contradictory behaviors.”

People Thinking Different Behavior Capacity Different Things Contradictory

Author:Richard Ayoade

“Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently from an animal which knows that p - talk of knowledge is necessary once one begins to look at explaining the cognitive capacities of a species.”

Knows Believe Looks May Individual Belief Animal Behavior Capacity Species Behave Adequate Explaining Cognitive

Author:Hilary Kornblith

“You can't make rules regarding the moral behavior of something unless you know what the hell it is, and what it's capacities are. What it can do, what it can't do.”

Knows Can Do Moral Hell Behavior Capacity Moral Behavior

Author:Jerry Garcia

“When there's a good fit between skills and expectations, there's what we call compatibility, and we would expect a good outcome. When there's a poor fit between expectations and the capacity of the kid, there is incompatibility, and that's when we see people exhibit challenging behavior.”

People Kids Challenges Poor Fit Skills Behavior Expectations Capacity Outcomes Exhibits Compatibility Incompatibility

Author:Ross W. Greene

“Being female in this world means having been robbed of the potential for human choice by men who love to hate us. One does does not make choices in freedom. Instead, one conforms in body type and behavior and values to become an object of male sexual desire, which requires an abandonment of a wide-ranging capacity for choice... Men too make choices. When will they choose not to despise us?”

Men World Humans Mean Doe Body Desire Values Hate Choices Objects This World Type Behavior Capacity Female Males Wide Despise Conform Abandonment Love Hate Sexual Desire Body Types

Book:Intercourse

Source: Intercourse

“It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.”

Inspirational Motivational Actors Individual Views Acting Attitude Greater Talent Personality Behavior Capacity Experience Increase Point Of View Coaches Human Behavior Evoke

Book:Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Source: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

“Educational exchange can turn nations into people, contributing as no other form of communication can to the humanizing of international relations. Man's capacity for decent behavior seems to vary directly with his perception of others as individual humans with human motives and feelings, whereas his capacity for barbarism seems related to his perception of an adversary in abstract terms, as the embodiment, that is, of some evil design or ideology.”