Philip Zimbardo Quotes

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• ... In contrast to the "banality of evil," which posits that ordinary people can be responsible for the most despicable acts of cruelty and degradation…
• The Devil's strategy for our times is to trivialize human existence and isolate us from one another while creating the delusion that the reasons are…
• Boys' brains are being digitally rewired for change, novelty, excitement and constant arousal. That means they're totally out of sync in traditional classes, which are…
• I'm saying to be a hero it means you step accross the line and are willing to make a sacrifice, so heroes always are making…
• Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene…
• We like to think there is this core of human nature – that good people can't do bad things, and that good people will dominate…
• You are not the same person working alone as you are in a group; in a romantic setting versus an educational one; when you are…
• The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive…
• Prejudice and discrimination have always been a big part of my life. When I was 6, I got beat up and called dirty Jew boy…
• I started studying shyness in adults in 1972. Shyness operates at so many different levels. Out of that research came the Stanford shyness clinic in…
• Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
• After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
• At North Hollywood High School, I was shunned by everyone. I would sit down in the cafeteria, and students would get up from the table…
• There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
• Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not…
• What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time…
• The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
• The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.
• I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people…
• Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

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