Toxic Environment Quote by Zimbardo

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

— Philip Zimbardo

“Prison is a society cultivating psychological repression. Deceptive, the subservient appearance of its camouflage a rage boiling just beneath the surface.”

— Dwight E. Abbott

One of the frustrations of prison life, which is also one of its intended consequences, is that the prisoner is made ineffective. He is…

— Hisham Matar

“the rapid growth of a larger prison system creates an expanded and more powerful system of “correctional” administration, which tends to have self-perpetuating features.”

— David Cay Johnston

“All these institutions [prisons] seemed purposely invented for the production of depravity and vice, condensed to such a degree that no other conditions could…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The jailers, the Court, everyone in that building – it wasn’t about justice; it was about obedience and intimidation…about maintaining order. Fear accomplished that…

— Jay Allan

“When people become prisoners of daily habits and happen to be hostages of choices, which they made in the past, but which they finally…

— Erik Pevernagie

The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: "Your study is going to take all the ethical…

— Philip Zimbardo

“This, not incidentally, is another perfect setting for deindividuation: on one side, the functionary behind a wall of security glass following a script laid…

— Nick Harkaway

“Nothing is worse in prison than the consciousness of one's innocenc; it prevents acclimatizatin and undermines one's morale...”

— Arthur Koestler