Best behavior & humanity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“This is a world that defines everything backwards, a world in which good is called bad, brightness is called darkness, up is called down, enlightenment is called abnormal behavior and abnormal behavior is applauded as reason.”

World Reason Humanity Darkness Buddhism Behavior Enlightenment Backwards Brightness Abnormal

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It's easy to tell the evolutionary level of a group of beings, or an individual being, simply by examining their behavior, their art, their psychology, their thought forms, their lingual structures, their history, their present moment, their future ideas, and the quality of their emotions.”

Art Ideas Moments Form Humanity Individual Easy Levels Emotion Quality Psychology Groups Buddhism Behavior Structure Present Moment Examining

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The thing that you learn in directing is that when you're on the floor, no matter how complex the shooting is...you have to remain absolutely sensitive to every nuance of the behavior of the people around you. Because, ultimately, if you don't keep in mind the overall humanity, then the machine takes over and suddenly all you have are technically fine shots, technically good performances. The story's being told, but something's lacking, something mysterious, indefinable.”

People Ifs Mind Matter Stories Humanity Fine Behavior Shots Machines Performances Complexes Mysterious Shooting Sensitive Lacking Nuance Indefinable Lacking Something

Author:Irvin Kershner

“People fascinate me. Consciously or unconsciously, I have been studying their behavior all my life.”

People Has Beens Humanity Study Behavior

Author:David Cobley

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

Humans Humanity Behavior Aspect Monsters Human Behavior

Author:Frank Spotnitz

“The core of humanity's sin problem is not a horizontal behavior to be corrected but a Vertical relationship to be restored.”

Problem Humanity Sin Behavior Core Vertical Horizontal

Author:James MacDonald

“If we each take responsibility in shifting our own behavior, we can trigger the type of change that is necessary to achieve sustainability for our race or this planet. We change our planet, our environment, our humanity every day, every year, every decade, and every millennia.”

Ifs Years Humanity Race Responsibility Environment Achieve Planets Type Behavior Decades Sustainability Taking Responsibility Shifting Our Planet Triggers Our Environment

Author:Yehuda Berg

“The notion of "humanity" as a form of transcendence derives, I think, from the conviction that intellectuality possesses an absolute power, from the demand that our best behavior depends on our ability to think abstractly, in terms of a universal rule, about something called humanity, that we need to understand humanity abstractly so that we can act responsibly towards those who represent it.”

Thinking Needs Form Humanity Term Ability Depends Demand Behavior Universal Absolutes Notion Conviction Transcendence Absolute Power

Author:Talal Asad

“Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.”

“I think Cruella is evil, because she's the devil. But all the other characters, I was able to find a common humanity with them somewhere, knowing where they're most fragile, where they're most vulnerable, knowing some of the things that happened to them that might have formed this kind of behavior.”

Thinking Kind Character Might Able Humanity Evil Common Knowing Happened Behavior Devil Vulnerable Fragile Common Humanity

Author:Glenn Close

“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

“Nothing can tell us so much about the general lawlessness of humanity as a perfect acquaintance with our own immoderate behavior. If we would think over our own impulses, we would recognize in our own souls the guiding principle of all vices which we reproach in other people; and if it is not in our very actions, it will be present at least in our impulses. There is no malice that self-love will not offer to our spirits so that we may exploit any occasion, and there are few people virtuous enough not to be tempted.”

“It's really about connecting to your own humanity and your own behaviors, and getting to a level of self-awareness so that you can have perspective and step outside of yourself and transform and become another person.”

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Author:Bryce Dallas Howard

“I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in a lot of imaginative effort to figure out how people lived in an era that is not yours. And in that understanding of people from a different era, I feel, is an important gateway into humanity. Because you understand human behavior. In order to understand humanity, history is important.”

People Needs Feels Humans Important Different Humanity Order Understanding Imagination Effort Figures Discipline Behavior Eras Human Behavior Imaginative Gateways Different Eras

Author:Sarnath Banerjee

“When I won the Cesar, I was, first of all, an actor. I have to say, it's humanity first. That's the future. We have to stop seeing the skin color. I believe that's the most powerful way to change mentalities and behavior.”

Believe Humanity I Believe Powerful Behavior Skins Most Powerful Mentality

Author:Omar Sy

“I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because they're almost the antithesis of the American character of generosity, of charity, of welcoming, of helping, of taking risks. You think of the lives that were expended in World War I and World War II to help others, and they say now we'll draw up the bridge and we'll protect ourselves. We won't have a broader role in humanity.”

“Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited.”

Together Humanity Behavior Series Patterns Fragile Woven Learned Behavior Behavior Patterns

Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.”

Humanity Evil Individual Behavior Collectives

Author:Reinhold Niebuhr

“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

“Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.”

Humanity Behavior Unpredictable Threatening Obliged Strange Phenomena

Book:A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

Source: A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays

“Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our genetics, to our physiology, to that particular environment in which we live. The earth is our home. Unless we preserve the rest of life, as a sacred duty, we will be endangering ourselves by destroying the home in which we evolved, and on which we completely depend.”

Home Earth Humanity Environment Particular Duty Depends Behavior Sacred Species Preserves Destroying Genetics Adapted Physiology Rest Of Life

Author:E. O. Wilson

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