Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Morality covers our conduct, not what goes on inside our heads.
J. G. Ballard -
Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
H. L. Mencken -
There are a few dogmas and double standards and really regrettable exports from philosophy that have confounded the thinking of scientists on the subject of morality.
Sam Harris -
You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
Laura Fraser -
At what point is someone precluded from availing themselves of the justification of self-defense because of their own poor judgment or bad behavior?
Dan Gelber -
The Holocaust changed our perception of morality not only because we discovered that morality is the only thing that can stand up to the ultimate evil, but also because it shifted the focus from society to the individual.
Yair Lapid
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You lose your habitual behavior, which allowed you to sort of zone out. You have to be here, you have to be now, you have to be present.
Sally Field -
Poetry, whatever the manifest content of the poem, is always a violation of the rationalism and morality of bourgeois society.
Octavio Paz -
I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
Rand Paul -
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
D. H. Lawrence -
If someone is not treating you in a way that you like, remember that there are so many nice people out there. The problem is that when you love someone, you make excuses for that kind of behavior.
Natalie Morales -
We were intrigued by the fact that we had so much actual behavior among people on our dating site, OKCupid.
Sam Yagan
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Philosophy as practice does not mean its restriction to utility or applicability, that is, to what serves morality or produces serenity of soul.
Karl Jaspers -
I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
Nate Silver -
The advantage of the consumer businesses is they tend to be much broader-based, much larger number of customers, that tend to over time be a lot more predictable. The advantage of the enterprise companies is they are not as subject to consumer trend, fad, behavior.
Marc Andreesen -
Morality is contraband in war.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.
B. F. Skinner -
I have seen many teachers in real life, which come from the same background and morality and treat their profession like just another one rather than a noble profession.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui
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The difficulty in judging what type of behavior works well arises not only because a given course of action does not always produce the outcomes. Similar outcomes can occur for reasons other than the person's actions, which further complicates inferential judgment. Effects that arise independently of one's actions distort the influence of similar effects produced by the actions, but only on some occasions. Given a strong cognitive set to perceive regularities, even chance joint occurrences of events can be easily misjudged as genuine relationships of low contingent probability.
Albert Bandura -
I was totally sober in college and really, really focused. I just took the time when other people might be partying and just made music and played at the party instead.
K. Flay -
I'm not in favor of any amnesty whatsoever.
Sam Graves -
You don’t have to be perfect to be pretty.
Carson Kressley -
Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless.
Martin Luther King, Jr.