John B. Watson

"Nature provides the raw materials; nurture builds the person."

"Literature reflects the conditioning of its society."

"Politics is the art of mass behavioral conditioning."

"Solitude is endured only because we have been conditioned to seek society."

"Relationships are networks of mutual conditioning between individuals."

"Faith is a learned response to uncertainty and fear."

"Money derives its value from conditioned human responses."

"The future is not determined by destiny but by present conditioning."

"Every neurosis is a learned behavioral disorder."

"We become what we are repeatedly required to do."

"The scientific understanding of behavior will eventually solve all social problems."

"Desire is not something we feel; it is something we do."

"The home is where the fundamental conditioning of life begins."

"Laughter is a conditioned response to social stimuli."

"Evolution shaped our basic reflexes; society shapes our behaviors."

"Education is the deliberate conditioning of the next generation."

"We do not think our way into behavior; we behave our way into thinking."

"Self-control is simply the conditioning of one stimulus by another."

"The nervous system is the only mind that truly exists."

"Every habit was once a conscious response that became automatic."

"To change behavior, one must change the stimulus environment."

"Memory is the trace of previous conditioning in the nervous system."

"Virtue and vice are nothing but learned patterns of response."

"We are all products of our conditioning; there is no escape from this truth."

"The child is father to the man through the process of conditioning."

"Consciousness itself may be nothing more than subtle behavioral responses."

"Language learning demonstrates the power of stimulus-response conditioning."

"Human nature is infinitely plastic under proper conditioning."

"The study of reflexes is the gateway to understanding all behavior."