Acceptable Behavior Quotes

Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?

Parties are only bad when a fight breaks out, when men fight over women or vice versa. Someone takes a fall, an ambulance comes, and the police arrive. If you can avoid those things, pretty much all behaviour is acceptable.

It is true that you get what you tolerate.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

So many red lines have been crossed that people seem to think it is acceptable for politicians and the media to actually incite hatred and violence.

The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

Expectations shouldn't be lowered, even if Donald Trump was just telling stories to impress the crowd around him and never grabbed as many women as he suggested. Lower the bar for what you can talk about, and you lower the bar for what is acceptable behavior.

Real people are actively trying to live like fake people, so real people are no less fake. Every comparison becomes impractical. This is why the impractical has become totally acceptable; impracticality almost seems cool.

What's appropriate in America anymore?

It was nothing, just the normal thing to do at the time.

Respectability offends my taste.

Actually, the notion of what is acceptable for a moral government to do seems to have eroded in some ways since 9-11. Not to get too political here, but countries, including our own, seem to have accepted what was once almost unimaginable - condoning torture, for example, and even criminalizing peaceful protest.

Society is infected with rude, cynical, restless, and frivolous persons who prey upon the rest, and whom no public opinion concentrated into good manners, forms accepted by the sense of all, can reach; the contradictors and railers at public and private tables, who are like terriers, who conceive it the duty of a dog of honor to growl at any passer-by, and do the honors of the house by barking him out of sight.

The range of socially permissible and desirable satisfaction is greatly enlarged, but through this satisfaction, the Pleasure Principle is reduced deprived of the claims which are irreconcilable with the established society. Pleasure, thus adjusted, generates submission.

I think I'm expected to behave in a certain manner.

Much of a behavior acceptable today would be socially offensive in a saner or more logical arrangement.

it's no longer socially acceptable to make bigoted statements and racist remarks. Some people are having an awful time with that: 'I didn't know anybody would be offended!' Well, where have you been? I remember when people got away with it and they don't anymore. That's fabulous.

You do realise modern social mores exist for a reason?" "I was hungry, allowances should be made.

I think it is OK to surprise people.

Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.

Neither the Church nor modern public opinion condemns petting, provided it stops short at a certain point.

What's wrong is wrong, and that's absolutely acceptable, and I understand that people get hurt by things that people say that are hurtful, and we should be able to say that when someone says something that hurts us, that it hurts us.

Good manners are the settled medium of social, as specie is of commercial, life; returns are equally expected for both.

In Sheffield, we need support from the community and for the community. We need integration with no loss of heritage, and a clear appreciation of what is and is not acceptable.

I am put on my best behavior, which means the same thing as the most uncomfortable behavior.