About This Quote

About Philip G. Zimbardo

Philip G. Zimbardo was a 20th-century American social psychologist. Philip George Zimbardo was an American psychologist and a professor at Stanford University. He was an internationally known educator, researcher, author and media personality in psychology who authored more than 500 articles, chapters, textbooks, and trade books covering a wide range of topics, including time perspective, cognitive dissonance, the psychology of evil, persuasion, cults, deindividuation, shyness, and heroism. Read more on Wikipedia →

Themes

  • Life — Reflections on the meaning, challenges, and beauty of life

More quotes by Philip G. Zimbardo

“Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful...”
— Philip G. Zimbardo
despotism fear war-on-terror

“Western societies want men to be upstanding, proactive citizens who take responsibility for themselves, who work with others to improve their communities and nation as a whole. The irony is that so...”
— Philip G. Zimbardo
men motivation society

“Majority decisions tend to be made without engaging the systematic thought and critical thinking skills of the individuals in the group. Given the force of the group's normative power to shape the ...”
— Philip G. Zimbardo
conformity decision-making dissent obedience

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”
— Philip G. Zimbardo
elvil human-nature psychology

“Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.”
— Philip G. Zimbardo
behavior beliefs psychology social-psychology

“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 of situational temptations. We invest...”
— Philip G. Zimbardo
psychology
View all quotes by Philip G. Zimbardo →

Related Quotes

“My feeling about work is that it's an unnecessary evil, so I've always done my best to avoid it.”
— Marty Rubin
evil necessity work

“Neither love nor evil conquers all, but evil cheats more.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton
evil fair-play love

“And that's when I first learned about evil. It is built in to the very nature of the universe. Every world spins in pain. If there is any kind of supreme being, I told myself, it is up to all of us...”
— Terry Pratchett
evil moral morality nature

“Justice is the only worship.Love is the only priest.Ignorance is the only slavery.Happiness is the only good.The time to be happy is now,The place to be happy is here,The way to be happy is to make...”
— Robert G. Ingersoll
good happiness how-to-be-happy morality

“Be a good human.”
— Tom Giaquinto, Be A Good Human
good happiness happy human

“Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure" and that therefore pleasure is the greatest good.”
— Madeleine L'Engle
good happiness pleasure

“We are human only in contact, and conviviality, with what is not human.”
— David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World
human nature

“The problem is this: nature has assembled all these species on this planet. The human species is no more important than any other species on this planet. For some reason, man accorded himself a sup...”
— U.G. Krishnamurti, No Way Out: Dialogues with Krishnamurti
human nature

“More than the disappearing trees and roses, its the human tendency to suppress the Natural Voice of the Natures Man which is sorrowful.”
— Ashutosh Gupta
human inspirational-quotes life man