Conditioned Response Quotes

“People are savages. Their civilized behaviour is only a conditioned response.”
― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land

“Brennan didn’t look exactly like Raif to Shayla’s eyes, but for someone who didn’t know either man particularly well, they probably looked like twins, separated at birth by twenty or so years.”
― Marjorie F. Baldwin, Conditioned Response

“Don’t kid yourself, Professor. The powerful don’t think things over. They just react. It’s all they know.”
― Vincent H. O'Neil, A Pause in the Perpetual Rotation

“It is of paramount importance that our spirituality be validated or confirmed by fidelity to our personal experience. A spiritual tradition that is only received from history or from family makes no real difference in a person’s life, for he or she is living by conditioned reflexive response. Only what is experientially true is worthy of a mature spirituality.”
― James Hollis, Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life: How to Finally, Really Grow Up