A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

Somehow people get the idea I think we should be given gumdrops whenever we do anything of value.

We admire people to the extent that we cannot explain what they do, and the word 'admire' then means 'marvel at.'

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

Do not intervene between a person and the consequences of their own behavior.

It is a mistake to suppose that the whole issue is how to free man. The issue is to improve the way in which he is controlled.

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 assault is not necessarily less inclined toward violence.