Bad Behavior Quotes

• A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them.

  Jane Austen

  Upset, Behavior, Bent

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• Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Ignorance, Knowledge, Guarantees

  Martha C. Nussbaum (2012). “Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities”, p.81, Princeton University Press

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• When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it.

  Carly Fiorina

  Behavior

  "Christie explains changed stance on gun laws; Trump Jr. talks father's candidacy; Fiorina scolds Clinton". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. January 06, 2016.

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• Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior.

  Temple Grandin

  Common Sense, Autism, Too Much

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• Most bad behavior comes from insecurity.

  Debra Winger

  Insecurity, Behavior

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• Flee and your bad behavior will be fixed in people's minds. Return, seem in goo spirits, and everyone will doubt their own memory of events.

  Jo Beverley

  Memories, People, Doubt

  Jo Beverley (2005). “A Most Unsuitable Man”, p.23, Penguin

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• Bad beliefs make bad behavior.

  Warren Akin Candler

  Christian, Belief, Behavior

  Warren Akin Candler (1927). “The Christ and the Creed ...”

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• If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.

  David D. Burns

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Source: time.com

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• If there are issues, if there's wrongdoing, people have to be held accountable and we have to try to deter future bad behavior.

  Hillary Clinton

  Issues, People, Trying

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a) recognize that an error has occurred and (b) develop a strategy for correcting the problem. An attitude of self-love and relaxation facilitates this, whereas guilt often interferes.

  David D. Burns

  Attitude, Errors, Behavior Change

  David D. Burns (1980). “Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy”

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• Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior.

  Ted Nugent

  Criminals, Rewards, Behavior

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• The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is a debased, dissolute, slum-dog society in which, by legal decree, the righteous suffer and the wicked prosper.

  Ilana Mercer

  Dog, Suffering, Wicked

  "Is It ‘moran’ Or ‘moron’?". www.ilanamercer.com. May 28, 2010.

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• Discipline isn't a dirty word. Far from it. Discipline is the one thing that separates us from chaos and anarchy. Discipline implies timing. It's the precursor to good behavior, and it never comes from bad behavior. People who associate discipline with punishment are wrong: with discipline, punishment is unnecessary.

  Buck Brannaman

  Dirty, Punishment, Discipline

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• The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it.

  Mark Steyn

  Principles, Rewards, Conservative

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• Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan's bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

  Camille Paglia

  New York, Media, Years

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• The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.

  Aldous Huxley

  Luxury, People, Promise

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• The argument that 'boys will be boys' actually carries the profoundly anti-male implication that we should expect bad behavior from boys and men. The assumption is that they are somehow not capable of acting appropriately, or treating girls and women with respect.

  Jackson Katz

  Girl, Boys, Men

  Jackson Katz (2006). “The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and and How All Men Can Help”, p.80, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

  Anthony Daniels

  Indulge In, Behavior, All Things

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• I focus on darker things or bad behavior or explicit dialogue because creatively I am more interested in my mistakes and why I made them than my good deeds and my achievements.

  Leslye Headland

  Mistake, Focus, Achievement

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• What is indisputable is the fact that unbelief is the force that gives birth to all of our bad behavior and every moral failure. It is the root.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Roots, Giving, Facts

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• Genetically influenced behavior is not necessarily good and not necessarily unchangeable. Explanations of bad behavior that appeal to genes do not absolve a person any more than do explanations that appeal to upbringing.

  Steven Pinker

  Evolution, Behavior, Genes

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• 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

  Self, Defense, Judgment

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• Once and for all, people must understand that addiction is a disease. It’s critical if we’re going to effectively prevent and treat addiction. Accepting that addiction is an illness will transform our approach to public policy, research, insurance, and criminality; it will change how we feel about addicts, and how they feel about themselves. There’s another essential reason why we must understand that addiction is an illness and not just bad behavior: We punish bad behavior. We treat illness.

  David Sheff

  People, Addiction, Essentials

  David Sheff (2013). “Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Mostly we're motivated to control ourselves in public. Mostly. At home the motivation is much less clear. At home there's a bit of a lab for bad behavior. You can test things out without terrible consequences. Or maybe the consequences are there, but they are deferred, buried, much harder to detect.

  Ben Marcus

  Motivation, Home, Labs

  "This week in fiction:Ben Marcus" by Deborah Treisman, www.newyorker.com. May 11, 2013.

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• Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.

  N. T. Wright

  Self, Way, Vices

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