B. F. Skinner Quotes

They taught me different was wrong.

Humans can be cruel - kids and adults alike. That doesn't mean they have to be forced to a specific stereotype.

When you're younger, you get shoved a lot. You don't really have a say-so.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.

Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon.

What I think tailors the creativity of most people are the rules that we learn from the age we are very small - in school, our parents.

The enemies of the future are always the very nicest people.

I think that children are acutely sensitive to injustice because they live in a world that is absolutely filled with injustice. They have very, very little power, and they are extremely aware of power relations.

Persecution is the first law of society because it is always easier to suppress criticism than to meet it.

I don't hate nobody. I hate certain conditions that are inflicted upon the people - and they're helpless with it.

It is a very rare man who does not victimize the helpless.

A suppressing person isn't critical. A suppressing person is a person who denies the rights of others.

It is very frightening to feel alone when you are standing against a rich and powerful person and all his attendant helpers.

Often the masses are plundered and do not know it.

Sexual, racial, gender violence and other forms of discrimination and violence in a culture cannot be eliminated without changing culture.

I remember being taught my place.

I do think that this planet is a totally unjust planet. I mean throughout history - history paints a beautiful picture when it's written by the victorious, but it's a planet that belongs to the strong and the more able, and usually they are tyrants. So basically, I don't see justice happening to the crushed and the weak.

The so-called modern education, with all its defects, however, does others so much more good than it does the Negro, because it has been worked out in conformity to the needs of those who have enslaved and oppressed weaker peoples.

The whites, who are educated and civilized, swindle me, and I am not hard to swindle because I do not know how to read and write.

They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness.

Social injustice is such a familiar phenomenon ... that it is readily regarded as something natural, even by its victims.

The law is solely made for the exploitation of those who do not understand it.

The reliance of our race upon the progress and achievements of others for a consideration in sympathy, justice and rights is like a dependence upon a broken stick, resting upon which will eventually consign you to the ground.

Brother! We have, as your friends, fought by your side, and have poured out our blood in your defense, but our arms are now broken. You have grown large. My people have become small, and there are none who take pity on them.