Carroll Quigley Quotes
The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.
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Civil lawsuits do two important things: they compensate people who are injured by the bad acts of others, and they penalize people and companies for bad behavior.
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Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
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You don't put milk in chamomile tea - that's disgusting behavior! That's not right.
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I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.
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I don't think I've ever used the word 'gay rights,' because I don't really believe in rights based on your behavior.
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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.
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I don't think that somebody who is observing or predicting behavior should also be participating in the 'experiment.'
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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.
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But the history of the changes produced by a universal idea is not a history of changes in the individual, but of changes brought about by the successive efforts of millions of individuals in the course of many generations.
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I have made hundreds of dives in submersibles, with each dive holding the promise of seeing an organism or a behavior that no one has ever seen before. But I have always wondered about the animals and behaviors that we're not seeing because our bright lights and loud thrusters scare them away.
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As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
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Altruism demands that an individual serve others, but doesn’t stipulate whether those others should be one’s family, or the homeless, or society as a whole. Collectivism states that, in politics, society comes first and the individual must obey. Collectivism is the application of the altruist ethics to politics.
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They play it safe, are quick to assassinate what they do not understand. They move in packs, ingesting more and more fear with every act of hate on one another.
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Economic science concerns itself primarily with theoretical and empirical generalizations about the behavior of individuals, institutions, markets, and national economies. Most academic research falls in this category.
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Not honesty alone, but the punctilio of an honor the most sensitive, is then the standard of behavior.
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The individual with a negative mental attitude attracts troubles as a magnet attracts steel fittings.
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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Un-Christian behavior on the part of any Christian is a disgrace to all Christians.
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Congress has all sorts of rules, hedge fund managers, private equity managers, executives, movie stars, fall into that allow them to escape or defer into the future not paying their taxes. And if you can defer your tax into the future, it's the best deal in the world, because you don't just get to eat your cake and have it too. You get to eat your cake and have a bigger cake.
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Given the choice, children who don't want for anything will not save... We have an obligation as parents to give our children what they need. What they want we can give them as a special gift, or they can save their money for it.
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I wasn't blessed with this unique talent for nothing. I have to put it on display. The game hasn't retired me. When I went through all of my struggles, I became a champion right then. Now I just have to walk through my destiny.
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...you have to think about your options, weigh the consequences before you make decisions, but the advice was so worthless when it came to the things that mattered.
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The social sciences are usually concerned with groups of persons rather than individual persons. The behavior of individuals, being free, is unpredictable.
