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" Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful. "

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" I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills. "

" The environment shapes people's actions. "

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

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

" Properly used, positive reinforcement is extremely powerful. "

" A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying. "

" 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. "

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

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

" I'm very pessimistic. "

" The feeling of being interested can act as a kind of neurological signal, directing us to fruitful areas of inquiry. "

" What is sought can never produce the seeking. "

" I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is. "

" Even the mundane task of washing dishes by hand is an example of the small tasks and personal activities that once filled people's daily lives with a sense of achievement. "

" Great scientific contributions have been techniques. "

" 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. "

" I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it. "

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

" A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment. "

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

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

" 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. "