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  • Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

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  • One of the most horrible, yet most important, discoveries of our age has been that, if you really wish to destroy a person and turn him into an automaton, the surest method is not physical torture, in the strict sense, but simply to keep him awake, i.e., in an existential relation to life without intermission.

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  • Of course, Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture. Give me a no-nonsense, down-to-earth behaviourist, a few drugs, and simple electrical appliances, and in six months I will have him reciting the Athanasian Creed in public.

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W. H. Auden

  • Born: February 21, 1907
  • Died: September 29, 1973
  • Occupation: Poet
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