Antisocial Behavior Quotes

• Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.

  Nikola Tesla

  Intelligence, Social Behavior, World

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• 'Grand Theft Auto', in its deification of antisocial behavior, is where I heap the most of my scorn.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Behavior, Antisocial, Theft

  "Nolan Bushnell Explains Further About 'Trash'y Games" by Susan Arendt, www.wired.com. October 25, 2007.

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• In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they're replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one's actions.

  Don Henley

  Responsibility, Self, Dysfunction

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• These data suggest very strongly that participating in the playing of violent video games by children and youth increase aggressive thought and behavior; increase antisocial behavior and delinquency; engender poor school performance; desensitize the game player to violence.

  Leland Yee

  Children, School, Player

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• Much is made of the accelerating brutality of young people's crimes, but rarely does our concern for dangerous children translateinto concern for children in danger. We fail to make the connection between the use of force on children themselves, and violent antisocial behavior, or the connection between watching father batter mother and the child deducing a link between violence and masculinity.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Mother, Children, Father

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin (1983). “Family politics: love and power on an intimate frontier”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I love the of dealing with the homoerotic versus the idea of dealing with certain tropes with regards to black masculinity in the world, propensity towards sports, antisocial behavior, hypersexuality - all of these sort of non-truths that I don't exist in but that I see as being fixed in the world's imagination.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Sports, Ideas, Imagination

  Source: www.aaa.si.edu

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• One is faced with a dilemma: If one places total trust in all other users, one is vulnerable to the antisocial behavior of any malicious user consider the case of viruses. But if one tries to be totally reclusive and isolated, one is not only bored, but one's information universe will cease to grow and be enhanced by interaction with others. The result is that most of us operate in a complicated trade-off zone with various arrangements of trust and security mechanisms.

  Fernando J. Corbato

  Interaction With Others, Bored, Trying

  "On Building Systems That Will Fail". Communications of the ACM, Volume 34 Issue 9, dl.acm.org. September 1991.

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• Materialism sets us free from sin-by proving that there is no such thing as sin. There's just antisocial behavior, which we can control with measures like laws and educational programs.

  Phillip E. Johnson

  Atheist, Educational, Law

  Phillip E. Johnson (1997). “Defeating Darwinism by opening minds”, Intervarsity Pr

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• Any analysis of 'sin' or 'evil' or 'demonic influence' or 'negative thinking' or 'systemic evil' or 'antisocial behavior' that fails to see the lack of self-dignity as the core of the problem will prove to be too shallow.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Thinking, Self, Evil

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• I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.

  Philip Zimbardo

  Ku Klux Klan, Doors, Psychology

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• Tangier is one of the few places left in the world where, so long as you don't proceed to robbery, violence, or some form of crude, antisocial behavior, you can do exactly what you want.

  William S. Burroughs

  Long, Tangier, World

  William S. Burroughs (2007). “Word Virus: The William S. Burroughs Reader”, p.128, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• It’s all in the genes”: an explanation for the way things are that does not threaten the way things are. Why should someone feel unhappy or engage in antisocial behavior when that person is living in the freest and most prosperous nation on earth? It can’t be the system! There must be a flaw in the wiring somewhere.

  Louis Menand

  Unhappy, Doe, Earth

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