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

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.

It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on.

Give me a child and I'll shape him into anything.

It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

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