Behavior Control Quotes

Ever since Gutenberg, every dynasty, every political leader, every major religion, has recognized that to control the media is to have a powerful instrument for controlling the values and behavior of a population.

If we understand the mechanism and motives of the group mind, it is now possible to control and regiment the masses according to our will without their knowing it.

Don't let the worst people you know dictate your behavior.

Anger is a choice, as well as a habit. It is a learned reaction to frustration, in which you behave in ways that you would rather not. In fact, severe anger is a form of insanity. You are insane whenever you are not in control of your behavior. Therefore, when you are angry and out of control, you are temporarily insane.

I'm constantly lying to my dog. He only responds to manipulation and blackmail.

Restricting behavior in a crises is hard to do.

The specifically human capacity for language enables children to provide for auxiliary tools in the solution of difficult tasks, to overcome impulsive action, to plan a solution to a problem prior to its execution, and to master their own behavior.

The object of rewards is to encourage; that of punishments, to prevent. If rewards are high, then what the ruler wants will be quickly effected; if punishments are heavy, what he does not want will be swiftly prevented.

The mind is divided, like a rider on an elephant, and the rider’s job is to serve the elephant. The rider is our conscious reasoning-the stream of words and images of which we are fully aware. The elephant is the other 99 percent of mental processes-the ones that occur outside of awareness but that actually govern most of our behavior.

Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.

Control language and you control thought; control thought and you control action; control action and you control the world.

We're all taught to blend in and behave.

That's the problem with the United States. It believes it can control everybody's behavior.

There are only two ways to influence human behavior: you can manipulate it or you can inspire it.

Don't cuss. Don't argue with the officials. And don't lose the game.

Cultural institutions by and large share one primary objective: herd control. Even when ostensibly benign, their propensity for manipulation, compartmentalization, standardization and suppression of potentially disruptive behavior or ideas, has served to freeze the evolution of consciousness practically in its tracks.

No matter how deeply disturbing the thought of using the environment to manipulate behavior for national advantages to some, the technology permitting such use will very probably develop within the next few decades.

You don't want to get too ridiculous on the weekdays.

We are not the ones driving the boat of our behavior, at least not nearly as much as we believe.

The hope for life after death must be separated forever from the behavior control mentality of reward and punishment. The Church must abandon, therefore, its reliance on guilt as a motivator of behavior.

[Madness] is the jail we could all end up in. And we know it. And watch our step. For a lifetime. We behave. A fantastic and entire system of social control, by the threat of example as effective over the general population as detention centers in dictatorships, the image of the madhouse floats through every mind for the course of its lifetime.

It's no fun feeling your thoughts are being controlled by an electrode, and someone else is holding the clicker.

Life needs penalties and rewards for people. You can't control people with only penalties. You have to think how to create rewards.

I can't control what everyone else does, I can't control anybody else's behavior, but I can control mine.