Social Conduct Quotes

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Remember, we can judge better by the conduct of people towards others than by their manner towards ourselves.

Manners are more important than laws. Upon them, in great measure, the laws depend.

Clichés, stock phrases, adherence to conventional, standardized codes of expression and conduct have the socially recognized function of protecting us against reality.

Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

If someone does something in an entertainment/pop ambience, that person becomes someone who has an impact on the conduct and attitude of a huge number of people who peripherally come in contact with them.

Public behavior is merely private character writ large.

What gives it its human character is that the individual through language addresses himself in the role of the others in the group and thus becomes aware of them in his own conduct.

The newspaper is in all its literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct

Real people had real agendas, real demands, real expectations about how other people should behave.

Crocker's Rules didn't give you the right to say anything offensive, but other people could say potentially offensive things to you, and it was your responsibility not to be offended. This was surprisingly hard to explain to people; many people would read the careful explanation and hear, "Crocker's Rules mean you can say offensive things to other people."

There are, in every society, rules of conduct, and practices of life, which the progress of events has gradually marked out, and general observance hallowed. Of these, some are founded on the principles of morality and religion, some on caprice, some on prejudice. The breaking of any of them is always esteemed a crime against society.

True small-c conservatives should fight at every turn to preserve basic standards of conduct and institutions that have served our nation well.

Thus a man was born into a fixed relation to certain gods as surely as he was born into a relation to his fellow-men; and his religion... was simply one side of the general scheme of conduct prescribed for him by his position as a member of society.

Most conduct is guided by norms rather than by laws. Norms are voluntary and are effective because they are enforced by peer pressure.

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

A person of “good character” was one who acted in accordance with the expectations of his community

Social psychology is especially interested in the effect which the social group has in the determination of the experience and conduct of the individual member.

Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church.

We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its national conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.

I think golf can be one of those places where we act and we hope that people act as we would like them to act all the time.

Decency is the least of all laws, but yet it is the law which is most strictly observed.