It is a surprising fact that those who object most violently to the manipulation of behaviour nevertheless make the most vigorous effort to manipulate minds.

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

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

Something doing every minute' may be a gesture of despair-or the height of a battle against boredom.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

Does a poet create, originate, initiate the thing called a poem, or is his behavior merely the product of his genetic and environmental histories?

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.