American - Psychologist | March 20, 1904 - August 18, 1990
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.
B. F. Skinner
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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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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
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If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.
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We have not yet seen what man can make of man.
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Reinforcement is being right.
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I'm very pessimistic.
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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 don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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I never really expected to be controversial.
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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.
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