“The alphabet was a great invention, which enabled men to store and to learn with little effort what others had learned the hard way-that is, to learn from books rather than from direct, possibly painful, contact with the real world.” MenWorldWayLittlesBookRealHardLanguageEffortDirectPainfulStoresInventionContactReal WorldAlphabetHard WayGreat Inventions Author:B. F. Skinner
“In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.” WorldChildrenEconomicDeserveAffectionFavorsSecureServingInadequateProvidersOld LoveEconomic EqualityDeserve You Book:WALDEN TWO Source: WALDEN TWO
“At this very moment enormous numbers of intelligent men and women of goodwill are trying to build a better world. But problems are born faster than they can be solved.” MenWorldTryingMomentsProblemBornNumbersMen And WomenIntelligentEnormousFasterGoodwillIntelligent Man Book:WALDEN TWO Source: WALDEN TWO
“In the world at large we seldom vote for a principle or a given state of affairs. We vote for a man who pretends to believe in that principle or promises to achieve that state. We don't want a man, we want a condition of peace and plenty-- or, it may be, war and want-- but we must vote for a man.” MenWorldWantBelieveMayWarStatesGivenPrinciplesAchieveConditionsPromiseVoteAffairPlenty Book:WALDEN TWO Source: WALDEN TWO
“The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background.” WorldLooksPoorViolenceStandardsHungerBackgrounds Book:WALDEN TWO Source: WALDEN TWO
“If the world is to save any part of its resources for the future, it must reduce not only consumption but the number of consumers.” IfsWorldNumbersBalanceResourcesPopulationConsumersConsumptionWorld Population Book:WALDEN TWO Source: WALDEN TWO
“The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must stop building one in which it will be impossible to live at all.” WorldWellsProblemLanguageEducationGreaterImpossibleBuildingImportanceRemainsLive WellBehaviorism Author:B. F. Skinner
“Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.” MenWorldYearsWellsHas BeensSaidMightTodayFiveMankindUnderstoodHundredYears AgoTwentiesMight Have BeenWorld TodayTwenty Five Author:B. F. Skinner
