All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

— Thomas Pynchon

A lot of human behavior was really acting out our responses to dangers long past.

— Orson Scott Card

Alterations in regulation of affect (emotion) and impulse:Almost all people who are seriously traumatized have problems in tolerating and regulating their emotions and surges or impulses. However, those with complex PTSD and dissociative disorders tend to have more difficulties than those with PTSD because disruptions in early development have inhibited their ability to regulate themselves. The fact that you have a dissociative organization of your personality makes you highly vulnerable to rapid and unexpected changes in emotions and sudden impulses. Various parts of the personality intrude on each other either through passive influence or switching when you're under stress, resulting in dysregulation. Merely having an emotion, such as anger, may evoke other parts of you to feel fear or shame, and to engage in impulsive behaviors to stop avoid the feelings.

— Suzette Boon

Although once when we were talking after class, Herr Silverman told me that when someone rises up and holds himself to a higher standard, even when doing so benefits others, average people resent it, mostly because they’re not strong enough to do the same.

— Matthew Quick

A Martial Artist may become A professional fighter but not every Fighter is capable of becoming A martial artist. Martial Arts are about restoration of physical and spiritual balance and fluidity; they are about observing restraints and 'setting example'. Every practice session is A reminder of the play of opposites (yin and yang), . . .

— Soke Behzad Ahmadi

An arrogant man whose arrogance we see from his own behavior is more tolerable than a humble man whose humility we hear of from his own mouth.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

And don’t forget, if you are very intelligent but load yourself with bad characters, nobody will follow you.

— Israelmore Ayivor

Anything or behavior too complex to understand becomes a phenomenon that could be termed spiritual or magical.

— Bryant McGill

Appearances are deceptive and behaviors reflective.

— Tasneem Hameed

Are men like babies? Is trying to distract them a better tactic than asking them to behave reasonably?

— Sophie Hannah