Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

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.

A person who has been punished is not thereby simply less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.

But restraint is the only one sort of control, and absence of restraint isn't freedom. It's not control that's lacking when one feels 'free', but the objectionable control of force.

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.