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" If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down. "

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" I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture. "

" The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone. "

" I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor of philosophy and telling him that I had lost my faith. "

" I won't say that I'm an agnostic, since agnosticism maintains that one cannot know... but I'm not averse to the idea of some intelligence or some organizing force that set up the initial conditions of the universe in such a way that ultimately generated stars, planets and life. "

" The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. "

" I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. "

" Behavior used to be reinforced by great deprivation; if people weren't hungry, they wouldn't work. Now we are committed to feeding people whether they work or not. Nor is money as great a reinforcer as it once was. People no longer work for punitive reasons, yet our culture offers no new satisfactions. "

" No theory changes what it is a theory about; man remains what he has always been. "

" The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned. "

" The consequences of an act affect the probability of its occurring again. "

" I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed. "

" I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control. "

" The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. "

" The way positive reinforcement is carried out is more important than the amount. "

" We have not yet seen what man can make of man. "

" We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. "

" You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements. "

" I have to tell people that they are not responsible for their behavior. They're not creating it; they're not initiating anything. It's all found somewhere else. That's an awful lot to relinquish. "

" I never really expected to be controversial. "

" Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything. "

" Religions work for their own aggrandizement - strengthen the church and so on - and they use reinforcers of one kind or another to get obedience and so on from their communicants. "

" When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. "

" Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. "

" Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful. "

" I'm very pessimistic. "

" If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment. "

" Reinforcement is being right. "

" Great scientific contributions have been techniques. "

" Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. "