Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
B. F. SKINNERThe mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread.
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If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.
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It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.
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Men build society and society builds men.
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The one fact that I would cry form every housetop is this: the Good Life is waiting for us – here and now.
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Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.
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I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.
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A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit attempting.
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To say that behaviors have different ‘meanings’ is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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A person’s genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.
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Something doing every minute’ may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.
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We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.
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Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.
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Was putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
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Teachers must learn how to teach they need only to be taught more effective ways of teaching.
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