Appliances Quote by W. H. Auden

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

— W. H. Auden

The Legacy of Behaviorism: Do this and you'll get that.

— Alfie Kohn

Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government,…

— Aldous Huxley

I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent…

— Sylvia Plath

Obedience is a powerful spiritual medicine. It comes close to being a cure-all.

— Boyd K. Packer

“In our daily schedule, we face copious of aggravation, frustration, and things that are beyond our control. It is not possible that we can…

— mashasolodukha

There are absolutely ways to manipulate behavior, because our behavior is endlessly being manipulated by the world around us.

— Robert Sapolsky

One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least…

— Edward Abbey

The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind…

— B. F. Skinner

“There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful psychological techniques. There is nothing about oneself which…

— Peter J. Carroll

“Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

I've become convinced that every person should treat himself strictly and even rudely and distrustfully; it's difficult to tame the beast in oneself.

— Ivan Turgenev