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

A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.

The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious process responsible for behavior but the very behavior itself in all the complexity of its controlling relations.

Let men be happy, informed, skillful, well behaved, and productive.

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

Unable to understand how or why the person we see behaves as he does, we attribute his behavior to a person we cannot see, whose behavior we cannot explain either but about whom we are not inclined to ask questions.

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