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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Whatever is expressed is impressed. Whatever you say to yourself, with emotion, generates thoughts, ideas and behaviors consistent with those words.
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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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The patrol system leads each boy to see that he has some individual responsibility for the good of his patrol.
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Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.
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On Earth, men and women are taking the same risks. Why shouldn't we be taking the same risks in space?
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They're trying to kill me," Yossarian told him calmly. No one's trying to kill you," Clevinger cried. Then why are they shooting at me?" Yossarian asked. They're shooting at everyone," Clevinger answered. "They're trying to kill everyone." And what difference does that make?
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I think you should live your life so that the maximum number of people will attend your funeral.
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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.
