Give Me A Child And I'll Shape

To Require A Citizen To Sign A Loyalty Oath Is To Destroy Some Of The Loyalty He Could Otherwise Claim, Since Any Subsequent Loyal Behavior May Then Be Attributed To The Oath.

I've Often Said That My Rats Have Taught Me Much More Than I've Taught Them.

Many Social Practices Essential To The Welfare Of The Species Involve The Control Of One Person By Another, And No One Can Suppress Them Who Has Any Concern For Human Achievements

But Restraint Is The Only One Sort Of Control, And Absence Of Restraint Isn't Freedom. It's Not Control That's Lacking When One Feels 'free', But The Objectionable Control Of Force.

In The Traditional View, A Person Is Free. He Is Autonomous In The Sense That His Behavior Is Uncaused. He Can Therefore Be Held Responsible For What He Does And Justly Punished If He Offends. That View, Together With Its Associated Practices, Must Be Re-examined When A Scientific Analysis Reveals Unsuspected Controlling Relations Between Behavior And Environment.