behaving quotes

'The true'to put it very briefly, is only the expedient in the way of our thinking, just as 'the right' is only the expedient in the way of our behaving.

-William James
  Pragmatism, lecture 6.

Men are rewarded and punished not for what they do, but rather forhow theiracts are defined.Thisiswhy men are more interested in better justifying themselves than in better behaving themselves.

-Thomas Stephen Szasz
  The Second Sin.