Philip Zimbardo Quotes
Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism.
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 that perpetuates such abuse.
To be a hero you have to learn to be a deviant — because you're always going against the conformity of the group.
The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.
Our time is brief, and it will pass no matter what we do. So let us have purpose in spending it. Let us spend it so that our time matters to each of us, and matters to all those whose lives we touch.
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 and walk away. They thought I was from the Mafia...
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 it.
Time matters because we are finite, because time is the medium in which we live our lives.
I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask. When someone is anonymous, it opens the door to all kinds of antisocial behavior, as seen by the Ku Klux Klan.
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 because they thought I looked Jewish.
Depending on whom you ask, time is money, time is love, time is work, time is play, time is enjoying friends, time is raising children, and time is much more. Time is what you make of it.
While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The situation is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.
Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.
The Stanford prison experiment came out of class exercises in which I encouraged students to understand the dynamics of prison life.
There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.
Research shows that the deciscions of a group as a whole are more thoughtful and creative when there is minority dissent than when it is absent.
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.'
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 1977.
Bullying is an evil because it not only destroys the life of the kid who's bullied, but also makes everyone in the class who knows this is going on feel guilty for not doing anything.
Bullies are often people who are shy and can't make friends easily, so, as the theme of the movie 'A Bronx Tale' tells us, it is better to be feared if you can't be loved.
It was God who created hell as a place to store evil. He didn't do a good job of keeping it there though.
Companies that model best practices, that model the most upstanding principles, end up as the most profitable. It's not a trade of profits versus principles.
What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.