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

Punitive measures whether administered by police, teachers, spouses or parents have well known standard effects: (1) escape-education has its own name for that: truancy, (2) counterattack-vandalism on schools and attacks on teachers, (3) apathy-a sullen do-nothing withdrawal. The more violent the punishment, the more serious the by-products.

We do not choose survival as a value, it chooses us.

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.

I've often said that my rats have taught me much more than I've taught them.

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

Each 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.