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B. F. Skinner quotes about world

American Psychologist March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990

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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. B. F. Skinner
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. B. F. Skinner
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. B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner quote: "The final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps..."
The final state of affairs may not have been foreseen. Perhaps we are merely reading a plan into the world after the fact. B. F. Skinner
B. F. Skinner quote: "The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of..."
The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background. B. F. Skinner

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