The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

The environment shapes people's actions.

If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment.

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.

The environment will continue to deteriorate until pollution practices are abandoned.