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Philip Zimbardo Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.”
— Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect
Tagged: Human Behavior, Evil
“If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.”
— Philip Zimbardo
Tagged: Psychology, Behavior, situation, Social Psychology
“While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.”
— Philip Zimbardo, Time Paradox: The New Psychology That Will Change Your Life
Tagged: Change, Time, Attitude, Belief
“The most apparent thing that I noticed was how most of the people in this study derive their sense of identity and well-being from their immediate surroundings rather than from within themselves, and that's why they broke down—just couldn't stand the pressure—they had nothing within them to hold up against all of this.”
— Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Tagged: Observation, Study, Prison, Identity
“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”
— Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Tagged: Evil, Psychology, Behavior, Human Nature
“Before I knew that a man could kill a man, because it happens all the time. Now I know that even the person with whom you've shared food, or whom you've slept, even he can kill you with no trouble. The closest neighbor can kill you with his teeth: that is what I have Learned since the genocide, and my eyes no longer gaze the same on the face of the world.”
— Philip Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil
Tagged: Behavior, Human Nature, Psychology, Killing, Genocide
“You can create in the prisoners feelings of boredom, a sense of fear to some degree, you can create a notion of arbitrariness that their life is totally controlled by us, by the system, you, me, and they'll have no privacy... We're going to take away their individuality in various ways. In general what all this leads to is a sense of powerlessness. That is, in this situation we'll have all the power and they'll have none.”
— Philip Zimbardo, Stanford Prison Experiment
Tagged: Prison, Prisoner, Identity, Individuality, Power, Authority
“The idea of the banality of heroism debunks the myth of the ‘heroic elect,’ a myth that reinforces two basic human tendencies. The first is to ascribe very rare personal characteristics to people who do something special — to see them as superhuman, practically beyond comparison to the rest of us. The second is the trap of inaction — sometimes known as the "bystander effect." Research has shown that the bystander effect is often motivated by diffusion of responsibility, when different people witnessing an emergency all assume someone else will help. Like the ‘good guards,’ we fall into the trap of inaction when we assume it’s someone else’s responsibility to act the hero.”
— Philip Zimbardo, The Banality of Heroism
Tagged: inaction, Heroism, Responsibility, Psychology, Observation, Research
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