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Human Quotes by Philip Zimbardo
- ... 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…
- 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…
- Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.
- Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.
- Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively…
- Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
- We want to believe in the essential, unchanging goodness of people, in their power to resist external pressures, in their rational appraisal and then rejection…
- The most dramatic instances of directed behavior change and "mind control" are not the consequence of exotic forms of influence, such as hypnosis, psychotropic drugs,…
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- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong