Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo Quotes

Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

A code of behavior is an inevitable part of life in any community, and if we hadn't inherited ours, we should have had to invent one.

Moral philosophy is nothing else but the science of what is good, and evil, in the conversation, and society of mankind. Good, and evil, are names that signify our appetites, and aversions; which in different tempers, customs, and doctrines of men, are different.

Grandmother belongs to the generation of women who were satisfied to have men retain their vices, if they removed their hats.

Morals are three-quarters manners.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

Everybody doesn't have to have a daughter who's a goodie-two-shoes.

When, in the present world, men behave well, that is no doubt sometimes because they are creatures of habit as well as, sometimes, because they are reasonable.

Men have a trick of coming up to what is expected of them, good or bad.

The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.

He cried when I left, which I find to be standard male behavior.

As to modesty and decency, if we are simians we have done well, considering: but if we are something else-fallen angels-we have indeed fallen far.

The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them.

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

The beast in us must be[78] wheedled: ethic is necessary, that we may not be torn to pieces.

They [men and women] have both been, and men especially, have been told that how they naturally are is bad.

There are few defects in our nature so glaring as not to be veiled from observation by politeness and good-breeding.

It's a pity more men are not bastards by birth instead of vocation.

I like playing the social convention. If you're in a period drama, there's always something dancing underneath the surface as a human - but then you always have to conform to the social conventions around you, and those two things get to be juxtaposed against each other. You're being human, but you're trapped within the social convention of the time.

In society it is etiquette for ladies to have the best chairs and get handed things. In the home the reverse is the case. This is why ladies are more sociable than gentlemen.

We want to believe we are good, we are different, we are better, or we are superior. But this body of social-psychological research--and there are obviously many more experiments in addition to mine and Milgram's--shows that the majority of good, ordinary, normal people can be easily seduced, tempted, or initiated into behaving in ways that they say they never would. In 30 minutes we got them stepping across that line.

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.

We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature.

Men are often bad, but babies never are.