Behavior Is Shaped And Maintained

Men Build Society And Society Builds Men.

It Is A Surprising Fact That Those Who Object Most Violently To The Manipulation Of Behaviour Nevertheless Make The Most Vigorous Effort To Manipulate Minds.

We Admire People To The Extent That We Cannot Explain What They Do, And The Word 'admire' Then Means 'marvel At.'

Each Of Us Has Interests Which Conflict The Interests Of Everybody Else... 'everybody Else' We Call 'society'. It's A Powerful Opponent And It Always Wins. Oh, Here And There An Individual Prevails For A While And Gets What He Wants. Sometimes He Storms The Culture Of A Society And Changes It To His Own Advantage. But Society Wins In The Long Run, For It Has The Advantage Of Numbers And Of Age.

A Culture Must Be Reasonably Stable, But It Must Also Change, And It Will Presumably Be Strongest If It Can Avoid Excessive Respect For Tradition And Fear Of Novelty On The One Hand And Excessively Rapid Change On The Other.