December 19, 2019 / Last updated : December 16, 2019 B. F. Skinner Foundation Skinner's Quote of the Day Reflections on Behaviorism and Society. Chapter 11: The Free and Happy Student. Quote 1 “What we may call the struggle for freedom in the Western world can be analyzed as a struggle to escape from or avoid punitive or coercive treatment.” (p. 143)