Of course, Behaviorism "works." So does torture. Give me a no- nonsense, down-to-earth behaviorist, a few drugs, and simple electr...ical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being... good.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Let the jury consider their verdict," the King said, for about the twentieth time that day. "No, no!" said the Queen. "Sente...nce first--verdict afterwards." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence first!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What is it we heartily wish of each other? Is it to be pleased and flattered? No, but to be convicted and exposed, to be shamed ou...t of our nonsense of all kinds, and made men of, instead of ghosts and phantoms.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of what Mr. Wallace calls his global thinking is, no matter how you slice it, still "globaloney." Mr. Wallace's warp of sense... and his woof of nonsense is very tricky cloth out of which to cut the pattern of a post-war world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
School-days, I believe, are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new ...and unpleasant ordinances, brutal violations of common sense and common decency. It doesn't take a reasonably bright boy long to discover that most of what is rammed into him is nonsense, and that no one really cares very much whether he learns it or not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Terrorists often claim to be fighting wars, and to be doing no more than is necessary in war. This is nonsense. War is certainly t...he natural expression of collective resentment; but it occurs between organised groups and is fought openly, against a collective enemy. It is possible to fight a war with undiminished respect for the rights of the enemy individual. Indeed, that is the duty of every soldier. But the terrorist must disregard this duty and disobey the law of war. His feelings towards the individual are abolished by his loathing of the group, and it is this--rather than his cowardice, cruelty, or intemporate hate--that constitutes his true moral corruption.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it tha...n the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We're not blind and we're not fools. We're just plain, sensible people who refuse to be fooled by a lot of supernatural nonsense....... There's no magic in dried lizards and dead chickens.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »