B. F. Skinner Quotes - 9quotes.com

I would be opposed to any kind of totalitarian control.
Written by B. F. Skinner
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.
Written by B. F. Skinner
Reinforcement is being right.
Written by B. F. Skinner
You can get along very well in this world by simply coming up with a quantity of reasonably valid statements.
Written by B. F. Skinner
Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
Written by B. F. Skinner
What is sought can never produce the seeking.
Written by B. F. Skinner
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.
Written by B. F. Skinner
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men.
Written by B. F. Skinner
If you insist that individual rights are the summum bonum, then the whole structure of society falls down.
Written by B. F. Skinner
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
Written by B. F. Skinner
The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.
Written by B. F. Skinner
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.
Written by B. F. Skinner

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