Most of the Ten Commandments are negative. The purpose of law is not to mandate good behavior. That concept comes from the French Revolution.
Randall Terry

Music is part of us, and either ennobles or degrades our behavior.
Boethius

My heart has been heavy and I have deliberated within my own conscience, knowing that my decision should not come out of my initial emotion of anger toward the President for such reckless behavior, but should be based on the facts.
Blanche Lincoln

My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
Mark Strong

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.
Lorna Luft

My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
A. E. van Vogt

No matter how calmly you try to referee, parenting will eventually produce bizarre behavior, and I'm not talking about the kids. Their behavior is always normal.
Bill Cosby

No matter how hard we might wish, we will not be able to transform China's behavior overnight.
Madeleine Albright

Normal social behavior requires that we be able to recognize identities in spite of change. Unless we can do so, there can be no human society as we know it.
Kenneth L. Pike

Of course as children, we all, in all cultures and societies, learn behavior from observation, imitation, and encouragement of various kinds. So by the suggestion made, we all 'pretend' most of the time.
Gary Gygax

Other countries, such as Israel, successfully employ behavior detection techniques at their airports, but the bloated, ineffective bureaucracy of TSA has produced another security failure for U.S. transportation systems.
John Mica

Our learning ought to be our lives' amendment, and the fruits of our private study ought to appear in our public behavior.
Thomas Nashe

Our morbidly obese federal government needs not just behavior modification but bariatric surgery.
Mitch Daniels

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.
Logan P. Smith

Parents should monitor their behavior, know who their friends are, and keep track of what they do.
John Walters

People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.
Sharon Stone

People say I make strange choices, but they're not strange for me. My sickness is that I'm fascinated by human behavior, by what's underneath the surface, by the worlds inside people.
Johnny Depp

People's behavior makes sense if you think about it in terms of their goals, needs, and motives.
Thomas Mann

Perfect behavior is born of complete indifference.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Perhaps it is because cats do not live by human patterns, do not fit themselves into prescribed behavior, that they are so united to creative people.
Andre Norton