Helpless Quote by B. F. Skinner Download Open image “Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.” — B. F. Skinner ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Helpless Individual Society
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. It enslaves him almost before he has tasted freedom. The 'ologies' will tell you how its… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People only attack when they see weakness or when they think that someone is ashamed of it or embarrassed and they can't wait to… — Dax Shepard Copy Share Image
For violent people to make themselves vulnerable, and then to have that vulnerability be used against them, bad things can happen. — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
When we're defined by what people think we lose the courage to be vulnerable. — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
There is a strand of self-absorption and fragility running through this generation; all too ready to cry 'victim' at the first hint of a… — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
The true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“the key channel through which early adversity causes damage to developing bodies and brains is stress.” — Paul Tough Copy Share Image
All the inducements of early society tend to foster immediate action; all its penalties fall on the man who pauses; the traditional wisdom of… — Walter Bagehot Copy Share Image
The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
Our society has gotten to the point where we might soon become less and less shocked by any kind of violence. — Stanley Crouch Copy Share Image
To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The problem of far greater importance remains to be solved. Rather than build a world in which we shall all live well, we must… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a freshman in college, I was still somewhat bothered by... worried... about religion. I remember going to this professor… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Those who have had anything useful to say have said it far too often, and those who have had nothing to say have been… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
A disappointment is not generally an oversight. It might just be the best one can do the situation being what it is. The genuine… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The simplest and most satisfactory view is that thought is simply behavior - verbal or nonverbal, covert or overt. It is not some mysterious… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
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… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
I am opposed to the military use of animals. I am also opposed to the military use of men. — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
Almost everywhere we find . . . the use of various coercive measures, to rid ourselves as quickly as possible of the child withinus--i.e.,… — Alice Miller Copy Share Image
I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
What we need as Christians is to be able to feed ourselves. How many there are who sit helpless and listless, with open mouths,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
I know it's not good to be weak and helpless. But I don't think it's good to be too strong either. In our society,… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
Of her own experience she had no memory of the thing happening; but in her instinct, which was the experience of all mothers of… — Jack London Copy Share Image
To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands… — Ichabod Spencer Copy Share Image
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
Do you feel that you have lost your way in life? Then God Himself will show you your way. Are you utterly helpless, worn… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
The important thing is to tell yourself a life story in which you, the hero, are primarily a problem solver rather than a helpless… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
