Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
B. F. SkinnerI 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.
B. F. SkinnerWas putting a man on the moon actually easier than improving education in our public schools?
B. F. SkinnerEach of us has interests which conflict the interests of everybody else... 'everybody else' we call 'society'. It's a powerful opponent and it always wins. Oh, here and there an individual prevails for a while and gets what he wants. Sometimes he storms the culture of a society and changes it to his own advantage. But society wins in the long run, for it has the advantage of numbers and of age.
B. F. Skinner