Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are..

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….

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion..

Your liberals and radicals all want to govern. They want to try it their way- to show that people will be happier if the power is wielded in a differ….

Society already possesses the psychological techniques needed to obtain universal observance of a code - a code which would guarantee the success of ….

In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love b….

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) ….

Fame is also won at the expense of others. Even the well-deserved honors of the scientist or man of learning are unfair to many persons of equal achi….

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?.

Men build society and society builds men..

Each of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always….

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..

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….

A child who has been severely punished for sex play is not necessarily less inclined to continue; and a man who has been imprisoned for violent assau….

To say that... behaviors have different 'meanings' is only another way of saying that they are controlled by different variables..

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….

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….

A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine error is to quit att….

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..

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….

The mob rushes in where individuals fear to tread..