“The majority of people don't want to plan. They want to be free of the responsibility of planning. What they ask for is merely some assurance that they will be decently provided for. The rest is a day-to-day enjoyment of life. That's the explanation for your Father Divines; people naturally flock to anyone they can trust for the necessities of life... They are the backbone of a community--solid, trust-worthy, essential.”

B.F. Skinner

B.F. Skinner - “The majority of people don't want to...” 1

Similar quotes

“You don't have to fear your own company being perceived as human. You want it. People don't trust companies; they trust people.”

Stan Slap
Read more

“The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for.”

C.S. Lewis
Read more

“You can’t have a plan for your day, ‘til you have a plan for your life.”

Tony Robbins
Read more

“The heart wants what it wants, Dolp. You don't plan on making your life complicated, it just happens,and you don"t do it on purpose, and you don't do it to hurt people who love you. It just turns out that way sometimes.”

Laurell K. Hamilton
Read more

“People want guidance, not rhetoric. They need to know what the plan of action is, and how it will be implemented. They want to be given responsibility to help solve the problem and authority to act on it.”

Howard Schultz
Read more