Nowadays, everybody fancies himself an expert in government and wants to have a say.
B.F. SkinnerIt is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.
B.F. SkinnerThe world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.
B.F. SkinnerThe final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps we are merely reading a plan into the world after the fact.
B.F. SkinnerWhat is love except another name for the use of positive reinforcement? Or vice versa.
B.F. SkinnerWe can achieve a sort of control under which the controlled, though they are following a code much more scrupulously than was ever the case under the old system, nevertheless feel free. They are doing what they want to do, not what they are forced to do. That's the source of the tremendous power of positive reinforcement-- there's no restraint and no revolt. By careful cultural design, we control not the final behavior, but the inclination to behave-- the motives, desires, the wishes.
B.F. SkinnerThe hero is a device which the historian has taken over from the layman. He uses it because he has no scientific vocabulary or technique for dealing with the real facts of history-- the opinions, emotions, attitudes; the wishes, plans, schemes; the habits of men. He can't talk about them so he talks about heroes.
B.F. SkinnerBut restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.
B.F. SkinnerThe amateur doesn't appreciate the need for experimentation. He wants his experts to know.
B.F. SkinnerDemocracy is the spawn of despotism. And like father, like son. Democracy is power and rule. It's not the will of the people, remember; it's the will of the majority.
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