B. F. Skinner Quotes
Except when physically restrained, a person is least free or dignified when he is under threat of punishment, and unfortunately most people often are.
Skinner, B. F. Beyond Freedom and Dignity. Knopf, 1971, p. 60.
Although English, Cobett spent time in America and published a newspaper, The Porcupine Gazette, in Philadelphia. We was very conservative and even proposed legally enslaving the lazy poor. One of the reasons that he spent time in America was that he thought that England had become hopelessy democratic but thought there might be hope for America. Cobbett and his paper represented the extreme right wing fringe of the then Federalist Party. His Porcupine Gazette had a paying readership of 3,200, the largest circulation of any American daily newspaper.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner. Thanks to the work of Skinner and his followers, we now know that the psychological controls of a society, intended or otherwise, can be as big a factor affecting freedom as physical restraint. See {305304} for another of his quotations.
Thomas Jefferson used this quotation in one of his arguments against slavery. Jove was the most powerful of the Ancient Greek Gods.
Burrhus Frederic Skinner was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was a professor of psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.
