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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
  • Most bad behavior comes from insecurity. -- Debra Winger
  • The government is promoting bad behavior. -- Rick Santelli
  • Only criminals and bloodsuckers reward bad behavior. -- Ted Nugent
  • The Boogeyman is your conscience. The Boogeyman is the result of your own bad behavior. I love this Boogeyman. -- Sergio Aragones
  • 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
  • I think people, whether they realize they're doing it or not, seek out distractions to take their minds off what they know is bad behavior. -- Terence Winter
  • 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. -- Steven Weber
  • I will overlook bad behavior if I know that people's intentions are good. I have this belief that people really can do good things and that people want to be good. -- Elizabeth Mitchell
  • 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
  • I believe the election and reelection of Obama were among the most conspicuous acts of denial in recent years. Voters just stopped paying attention. They accepted consistently bad behavior and rewarded it. Then they wonder why they get more bad behavior. -- Allen West
  • I think comedy directors tend to feel a need to justify the bad behavior, and I just never think that. I like bad behavior, I've always liked bad behavior, I'm a fan of bad behavior, and I don't think you have to justify bad behavior. -- Todd Phillips
  • What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.' -- Ira Sachs
  • Bad beliefs make bad behavior. -- Warren Akin Candler
  • I cannot tolerate my bad behavior in another person for 10 seconds -- Garrison Wynn
  • A lot of bad behavior in singers is caused by nerves. -- Renee Fleming
  • When you don't respond to bad behavior, you get more of it. -- Carly Fiorina
  • All bad behavior is really a request for love, attention, or validation. -- Kimberly Giles
  • Knowledge is no guarantee of good behavior, but ignorance is a virtual guarantee of bad behavior. -- Martha C. Nussbaum
  • You can have me the way i am ? bad behavior included ? or not at all. -- Stephenie Meyer
  • Sometimes we forget about common sense. Autism is used too much as an excuse for bad behavior. -- Temple Grandin
  • A person who is knowingly bent on bad behavior, gets upset when better behavior is expected of them. -- Jane Austen
  • Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it. -- Anthony Daniels
  • The most basic of conservative principles is that if you reward bad behavior you get more of it. -- Mark Steyn
  • Scepticism is never certain of itself, being less a firm intellectual position than a pose to justify bad behavior. -- Fulton J. Sheen
  • The majority should not be punished and subjected to a licensing curfew because of the bad behavior of the minority. -- Tessa Jowell
  • So I put up with bad behavior in the name of loving the way I thought you were supposed to love. -- Deb Caletti
  • You cannot "love" a dog out of her bad behavior, just as you can't "love" a criminal into stopping his crimes. -- Cesar Millan
  • I think a lot of American comedies tend to apologize for their bad behavior in the last 10 minutes of the movie. -- Todd Phillips
  • 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
  • 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
  • The worst tragedy of sin isn't that it produced bad behavior, but that it produced the idea that bad behavior is strong enough to deflect love. -- D.R. Silva
  • The library is every child's lighthouse. It is every person's sanctuary. It is every town and county's fortress in the face of ignorance, intrusion and bad behavior. -- Amy Bloom
  • I think to deal with Putin, you need to deal from strength. He's a bully, you enable bad behavior when you're nuanced with a guy like that. -- Jeb Bush
  • She gets away with it. Everybody co-signs her bad behavior. It's like we all are co-dependent on Lindsay Lohan. When are we going to stand up to her? -- Jane Velez-Mitchell
  • I'm not a fan of justifying bad behavior or justifying why people are the way they are. I think that's a cop out. I don't have a lot of empathy for that. -- Charlize Theron
  • 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
  • I believe we have to take this step by step to try to reign in Iranian aggression, their support for terrorism and the other bad behavior that can come back and haunt us. -- Hillary Clinton
  • We really don't know how to love each other because we haven't really learned to love ourselves. In many instances, not all, it's not malicious. We've just been conditioned to such bad behavior. -- Iyanla Vanzant
  • 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
  • We had no idea what we were getting into. We thought we were just doing this little vampire movie in Portland. There was just a lot of silliness, a lot of hijinks and bad behavior. -- Elizabeth Reaser
  • The Greeks distinguished between good and bad behavior, language that enhanced or diminished persons. Being intoxicated with scientism, we fail to recognize that the seemingly technical terms used to identify psychiatric illnesses and interventions are simply dyphemisms and euphemisms. -- Thomas Szasz
  • I think the world honestly would be a much healthier place if instead of trying to find rationalizations for our bad behavior we would just say, "I was an asshole. Sure, there were reasons behind it, but that doesn't matter. -- Colin Quinn
  • Although both my grandfathers encountered ethnic prejudice, they viewed this as an aberration-a failure of some Americans to live up to the nation's ideals. It did not dawn on them to blame the bad behavior of some Americans on America itself. -- Robert P. George
  • 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
  • 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
  • Merchandise from Wal-Mart has become as ubiquitous as the water supply. Yet, still, the company is rebuked and reviled by anyone claiming a social conscience and is lambasted by legislators as if its bad behavior places it somewhere between investment bankers and the Taliban. -- Charles Platt
  • The government is promoting bad behavior... do we really want to subsidize the losers' mortgages... This is America! How many of you people want to pay for your neighbor's mortgage? President Obama are you listening? How about we all stop paying our mortgage! It's a moral hazard -- Rick Santelli
  • I would not suggest the U.S. should sit down with the North Koreans bilaterally immediately after they've fired missiles - because the appearance is that you reward bad behavior. But if North Korea behaves for some period of time, I would pretty much favor direct talks. -- Richard Armitage
  • 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
  • No one is more sentimentalized in America than mothers on Mother's Day, but no one is more often blamed for the culture's bad people and behavior. -- Anne Lamott
  • If only shame were a reliable engine for behavior modification. All it does is make me feel bad, which inspires me to bust open a bag of cheese popcorn, which then makes me feel crappy about my weight. -- Ayelet Waldman
  • The fact is, as actors, everything we do, bad or good, is a contribution. To me, it is a positive thing to give people as wide a range of human behavior with some sense of understanding of that behavior or some clue to it. -- Grace Zabriskie
  • The thing about markets, and I think the thing people don't understand about that, is markets are not kind, but they're very efficient. So when the marketplace determines an inefficiency in the system, it corrects that, and a market system that's left alone will reward good behavior and punish bad behavior. -- Randy Neugebauer
  • I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about. -- Bill Cosby
  • Don't reward bad behavior. It is one of the first rules of parenting. During the financial cataclysm of 2008, we said it differently. When we bailed out banks that had created their own misfortune, we called it a 'moral hazard,' because the bailout absolved the bank's bad acts and created an incentive for it to make the same bad loans again. -- Eliot Spitzer
  • Sometimes poor behavior is simply bad execution of good intent. -- Stephen Covey
  • The real threat, as seen by the ACLU, is that religious behavior might give secular behavior a bad name, and that is, surely, unconstitutional. -- William F. Buckley, Jr.
  • Criminal court is where bad people are on their best behavior. It's much more dangerous for lawyers and judges in family court, where good people are at their worst. -- Richard Dooling
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