Ethical Quote by Philip Zimbardo

The [Stanford Prison Experiment] was readily approved by the Human Subjects Research committee because it seemed like college kids playing cops and robbers, it…

— Philip Zimbardo

The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.

— Philip Zimbardo

We all have done something unethical.

— John C. Maxwell

In one sense, the Stanford prison study is more like a Greek drama than a traditional experiment, in that we have humanity, represented by…

— Philip Zimbardo

“Zimbardo demonstrated this in the early 1970s when he carried out his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment. The mock jail he set up in Stanford’s…

— Zimbardo

The moral abhorrence of private prisons has been brought to our attention by courageous acts of investigative journalism, illuminating scholarship, and the work of…

— Clint Smith

It is certain that the study of human psychology, if it were undertaken exclusively in prisons, would also lead to misrepresentation and absurd generalizations.

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

— Jorge Paulo Lemann

“Research by Cornell’s Robert Frank and his colleagues showed that the percentage of students choosing unethical options on an honesty test increased dramatically among…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

“So what indeed! The lesson I myself learned over and over again when teaching at the college and then the prison was the uselessness…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“had studied the “The Stanford Experiment” before, but this new book by Phil Zimbardo, “The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil” added…

— Nancy Many

The scale and the brutality of our prisons are the moral scandal of American life.

— Adam Gopnik