behavioral boundaries Quotes

Perhaps it's just me, but I am wary of any persons whose belief system is the only thing standing between them and repulsive behavior.

To let the child do as he likes when he has not yet developed any powers of control is to betray the idea of freedom.

Like children, dogs want discipline and are most secure when they have rules to live by. The happiest dogs are those with gentle masters who quietly but firmly demand respect.

People are going to behave however the social norms permit, and beyond that.

When I talk to people and I get animated, I touch them and am very physically involved. It's actually been really hard, but it's an acting challenge.

People know there is a difference between what you do and what you accept. There is a difference between me knowing that people swear, me hearing people swear and me swearing, and everyone accepting that this is something you can do as much as you like.

One wonders what would happen in a society in which there were no rules to break. Doubtless everyone would quickly die of boredom.

It doesn’t matter what you do, as long as you don’t do it in the street and frighten the horses.

If ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.

Americans have an interesting conundrum, a black and white line: You're on one side or the other of Puritanism or licentiousness. But that gray area where people abide, between their ears or on the Internet, needs to be fleshed out more in terms of permission granted. I think a lot of women are contained within the parentheses of shoulds and role-play. It's all about entitlement and history. It's all about upper-body strength - and exacting your will.

I attributed their behavior to the fact that they didn't have a TV, but television didn't teach you everything. Asking for candy on Halloween was called trick-or-treating, but asking for candy on November first was called begging, and it made people uncomfortable. This was one of the things you were supposed to learn simply by being alive, and it angered me that the Tomkeys did not understand it.

In the range of things toddlers have to learn and endlessly review--why you can't put bottles with certain labels in your mouth, why you have to sit on the potty, why you can't take whatever you want in the store, why you don't hit your friends--by the time we got to why you can't drop your peas, well, I was dropping a few myself.

Life is livable because we know that wherever we go most of the people we meet will be restrained in their actions towards us by an almost instinctive network of taboos.

No man can possibly improve in any company for which he has not respect enough to be under some degree of restraint.

All feelings are acceptable, but all behavior isn't.