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“I hate rude behavior in a man,' he explained in his quiet, unassuming drawl. 'I won't tolerate it.' He politely tipped his hat, and rode away.”

Men Hate Quiet Behavior I Hate Hats Tolerate Rude Unassuming

Author:Larry McMurtry

“Because," she said, "that is what men would call it. They invented Satan, didn't they? Satanic is merely the name they give to the behavior of those who would disrupt the orderly way in which men want to live.”

Men Way Want Giving Said Names Behavior Satan Orderly Satanic

Book:The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

Source: The Vampire Chronicles Collection: Interview with the Vampire, The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned

“To whatever degree he may have desacralized the world, the man who has made his choice in favor of a profane life never succeeds in completely doing away with religious behavior.”

Men World May Made Choices Religious Succeed Degrees Behavior Favors Profane

Book:The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

Source: The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion

“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

“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

“Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.”

Men Helping Home Behavior Responsible Sexuality Expected Disturbing Unnatural Being Responsible Gatekeepers

Book:The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

Source: The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women

“It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact that they exist at all, their presence in our lives, will wreak more havoc than we can begin to fathom. Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.”

“Any man or woman who neglects to maintain inward vigilance, and only makes an outward show of holiness in dress, speech, and behavior, is a wretched creature. For they watch the doings of other people and criticize their faults, imagining themselves to be something when in reality they are nothing. In this way they deceive themselves. Be careful to avoid this, and devote yourself inwardly to His likeness by humility, charity, and other spiritual virtues. In this way you will be truly converted to God.”

“We mast show by our behavior that we believe in equality and justice and that our religion teaches faith and love and charity to our fellow men. Here is where each of us has a job to do that must be done at home, because we can lose the battle on the soil of the United States just as surely as we can lose it in any one of the countries of the world.”

“The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.”

Knows Men Character Know How Path He Man Behavior Sensitive Ethical Sensitivity Mazes Ethical Behavior Destructive Behavior

Author:Earl Warren

“To say that a man is sinful because he sins is to give an operational definition of sin. To say that he sins because he is sinful is to trace his behavior to a supposed inner trait. But whether or not a person engages in the kind of behavior called sinful depends upon circumstances which are not mentioned in either question. The sin assigned as an inner possession (the sin a person "knows") is to be found in a history of reinforcement.”

Knows Men Giving Kind Persons Found Sin Depends Circumstances Behavior Definitions Possession Free Will Traits Reinforcement

Author:B. F. Skinner

“When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact that his annoying behavior is the result of antecedent causes which, if you follow them long enough, will take you beyond the moment of his birth, and therefore to events for which he cannot be held responsible by any stretch of imagination... When a motorcar fails to start, we do not attribute its annoying behavior to sin, we do not say, you are a wicked motorcar, and you shall not have any more gasoline until you go.”

Ifs Thinking Men Way Long Enough Moments Facts Faces Wish Causes Imagination Sin Results Failing Events Birth Behavior Responsible Refuse Wicked Free Will Attributes Annoying Gasoline

Author:Bertrand Russell

“Fatalism, whose solving word in all crises of behavior is All striving is vain, will never reign supreme, for the impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race. Moral creeds which speak to that impulse will be widely successful in spite of inconsistency, vagueness, and shadowy determination of expectancy. Man needs a rule for his will, and will invent one if one be not given him.”

Source: Essays in Popular Philosophy: Top Essays

“Man is not only part of a field, but a part and member of his group. When people are together, as when they are at work, then the most unnatural behavior, which only appears in late stages or abnormal cases, would be to behave as separate Egos. Under normal circumstances they work in common, each a meaningfully functioning part of the whole.”

People Men Whole Would Be Together Common Cases Groups Stage Fields Hard Work Circumstances Members Ego Behavior Normal Late Behave Unnatural Abnormal

Author:Max Wertheimer

“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.”

“Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.”

Men Life Firsts Soul Science Animal Progress Behavior Survival Ethics Intelligent Instinct Primaries Ethical Ingenuity Ethical Behavior

Author:Charlie Chaplin