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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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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You can only get discipline in the mass by discipline in the individual.
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Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
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It is remarkable that jealousy of individual property in land often goes along with very exaggerated doctrines of tribal or national property in land.
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One time my whole family played hide and seek. They found my mother in Pittsburgh!
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I think it's weird seeing myself on the television, but it's great!
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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.
