B.F. Skinner

The most important thing about teaching is to teach what it is to know.

The world would be a better place if we gave up the notion of individual responsibility.

I am sometimes accused of having left something out of account in my analysis of human behavior, and I usually admit it. I have left out the mind.

The pigeon is a better psychologist than the human being because it doesn't have language to confuse it.

The individual is a passive vessel to be filled by the environment.

Democracy is a technique for preserving freedom, but it is not necessarily the best technique.

The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free from the responsibility of planning.

The problem with Freud is that he didn't have any data.

Morality is a social construct enforced by punishment and reward.

There is no such thing as a free will.

The goal of psychology is to predict and control behavior.

Punishment does not eliminate behavior; it suppresses it temporarily.

Man is a machine in the sense that he is a complex system behaving in lawful ways.

The majority of people are controlled by their environment, not by themselves.

We do not act because of our feelings; we feel because we act.

The only way to tell if a person is honest is to observe their behavior.

Religion is just another form of behavioral control.

Human behavior is determined by its consequences.

We are what we have been rewarded for being.

The way in which a child is taught to perform an act is often more important than the act itself.