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Ethical and responsible behavior needs to become the cornerstone of corporate behavior

Ethics is prescriptive and can change behavior, but usually only at the margins.

Ever since the introduction of psychoanalysis there have been too many terms to excuse behavior and phrases that can be [used] to explain everything.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

Everyone who has observed human behavior for more than thirty continuous seconds seems to have noticed that people are strongly, perhaps even primarily, perhaps even single-mindedly, motivated to feel happy.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

Evil isn't a cosmological riddle, only just selfish human behavior.

Executives need to understand the economic benefits of trust dividend, especially when the behavior is real, not artificially or superficially created as PR to manipulate trust.

Executives can no longer hide behind the corporate veil. They need to be accountable for what their companies do, because entities are responsible for socially irresponsible behavior.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

Explaining "why" to a dog is pretty useless. You have to engage their instincts in order to change their behavior.

Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

Feelings can be controlled and behavior can be controlled. The line of sin is between the feelings and the behavior. The line of prudence is between the susceptibility and the feelings.

Fine conduct is always spontaneous.

Few things are as foolish as hoping old behaviors will somehow present new results.

Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior is merely the rediscovery of knowledge we have had for centuries.

Forgiveness means that you fill yourself with love and you radiate that love outward and refuse to hang onto the venom or hatred that was engendered by the behaviors that caused the wounds.

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

Folk whose own behavior is most ridiculous are always to the fore in slandering others.

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.

From this observed behavior a major psychological truth about this race of forked destroyers may be deduced: that, just as nature abhors a vacuum, "mankind abhors equality.

Fully 95 percent of our behavior, feeling, and response is habitual.

Generally, cars were not built to sit on dealer lots. It encourages the wrong kind of behavior in the whole system.

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.

Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures.

Genes are rarely about inevitability, especially when it comes to humans, the brain, or behavior. They're about vulnerability, propensities, tendencies.

Good behavior is everybody's business, and good taste can be everyone's goal.

Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.

Geopolitics is all about leverage. We cannot make ourselves safer abroad unless we change our behavior at home.

government has no business intervening in any consensual private behavior.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides.

Habits are the shorthand of behavior.

He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Highly proactive people don't blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice.

He is the Truth, and He wants us to deal in truth with ourselves and our loved ones. We want the truth about you and your family to flood into and overrun the secrets that keep you in bondage to dysfunctional behavior and relationships

Heroes are heroes because they are heroic in behavior, not because they won or lost.

How small we humans are. All our scrambling around, trying to buttress ourselves against death. All our efforts to insulate ourselves against uncertainty with codes of behavior and meaningless busyness.

Hold the mirror up to nature. Human behavior is worthy of examination and celebration.

Human action is purposeful behavior.

Human behavior is messy and unpredictable and unconcerned with convenient symmetries.

Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.

How do you change your behavior? Change what you worship

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

Human behavior is timeless.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

I always find you go back to an animal; it will always show you the sort of primal aspects of behavior. You always know how to respond if you choose that.

I am profoundly skeptical about our abilities to predict the future in general, and human behavior in particular.