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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

“The notion that a society could be regulated entirely by market forces is a utopian fantasy: an impossible dream generated by imagining what the world would be like if everyone's behavior was utterly consistent with some abstract moral ideal-in this case, economic theories that assume all human action is based on calculating, systematic, (but scrupulously law-abiding), greed.”

“When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed.”

People Behavior Ideals Ugly Abandon

Book:Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children

Source: Miss Manners' guide to rearing perfect children

“Ideals and morality are often spoken of as virtual antimatter to the behaviors allegedly needed to maximize profits.”

Needed Morality Behavior Ideals Profit Antimatter

Book:Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

Source: Moral Capitalism: Reconciling Private Interest with the Public Good

“Behavior of such cunning cruelty that only a human being could have thought of or contrived it we call 'inhuman,' revealing thus some pathetic ideal standard for our species that survives all betrayals.”

Humans Human Beings Behavior Standards Ideals Species Betrayal Cruelty Cunning Revealing Pathetic Inhuman

Book:A Casual Commentary

Source: A Casual Commentary

“[Even the mechanism can be endowed with an image. Thus] the thermostat has an image of the outside world in the shape of information regarding its temperature. It has also a value system in the sense of the ideal temperature at which it is set. Its behavior is directed towards the receipt of information which will bring its image and its value systems together.”

World Together Values Information Shapes Behavior Ideals Mechanism Temperature Outside World Value Systems Receipts

Author:Kenneth E. Boulding

“Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself.”

America Nations Behavior Ideals Prejudice Blame Dawn Grandfather My Grandfather Bad Behavior Aberration

Book:Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

Source: Conscience and Its Enemies: Confronting the Dogmas of Liberal Secularism

“When women are relegated to moods, mannerisms, and contours that conform to a single ideal of beauty and behavior, they are captured in both body and soul, and are no longer free.”

Soul Body Behavior Ideals Mood Conform Captured Mannerisms

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“Before I was a parent I was struck by Rilke, who, as you know, didn't go to his daughter's wedding because he was writing a poem that day. That was the ideal for artistic behavior in 1950. That's the way I wanted to live.”

Knows Way Writing Wanted Parent Behavior Daughter Ideals Artistic

Author:Robert Bly

“Identical twins are ideal lab specimens for studying the difference between learned and inherited traits since they come from the womb preloaded with matching genetic operating systems. Any meaningful differences in their behaviors or personalities are thus likely to have been acquired, not innate.”

Has Beens Differences Study Personality Behavior Ideals Meaningful Traits Twins Womb Innate Identical Labs Matching Operating Systems Identical Twin

Author:Jeffrey Kluger

“All a child's life depends on the ideal it has of its parents. Destroy that and everything goes — morals, behaviour, everything. Absolute trust in some one else is the essence of education.”

Children Parent Moral Depends Behavior Ideals Essence Absolutes

Author:E. M. Forster

“Society has put before you the ideal of a 'perfect man'. No matter in which culture you were born, you have scriptural doctrines and traditions handed down to you to tell you how to behave. You are told that through due practice you can even eventually come into the state attained by the sages, saints and saviors of mankind. And so you try to control your behavior, to control your thoughts, to be something unnatural.”

Men Trying Matter States Culture Born Perfect Practice Mankind Behavior Ideals Tradition Saint Dues Doctrine Behave Savior Sage Unnatural Perfect Man

Author:U.G. Krishnamurti