The evolution of cultures appears to follow the pattern of the evolution of species. The many different forms of culture which arise correspond to th….

Going out of style isn't a natural process, but a manipulated change which destroys the beauty of last year's dress in order to make it worthless..

Behavior is shaped and maintained by its consequences.

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread..

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those ….

Some of us learn control, more or less by accident. The rest of us go all our lives not even understanding how it is possible, and blaming our failur….

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a geni….

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless..

A scientist may not be sure of the answer, but he's often sure he can find one. And that's a condition which is clearly not enjoyed by philosophy..

Overcrowding can be corrected only by inducing people not to crowd, and the environment will continue to deteriorate until polluting practices are ab….

The extent to which human aggression exemplifies innate tendencies is not clear..

We are only just beginning to understand the power of love because we are just beginning to understand the weakness of force and aggression..

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own nam….

I've had only one idea in my life - a true idee fixe. To put it as bluntly as possible - the idea of having my own way. 'Control!' expresses it. The ….

The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn….

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he un….

The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in w….

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die..

No one asks how to motivate a baby. A baby naturally explores everything it can get at, unless restraining forces have already been at work. And this….

An important fact about verbal behavior is that speaker and listener may reside within the same skin..

When we say that a man controls himself, we must specify who is controlling whom..