Quotes from Philip Zimbardo

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.

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.

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.

Boys are 30 percent more likely than girls to drop out of school. In Canada, five boys drop out for every three girls. Girls outperform boys now at every level, from elementary school to graduate school.

Evil is knowing better, but willingly doing worse.

I was discriminated against because I was Jewish, Italian, black and Puerto Rican. But maybe the worst prejudice I experienced was against the poor. I grew up on welfare and often had to move in the middle of the night because we couldn't pay the rent.

Time is the backdrop of our lives and the very fabric of the cosmos.

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

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.

The line between good and evil is permeable and almost anyone can be induced to cross it when pressured by situational forces.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

My early childhood prepared me to be a social psychologist. I grew up in a South Bronx ghetto in a very poor family. From Sicilian origin, I was the first person in my family to complete high school, let alone go to college.

There are no limits to what I would do to make my classes exciting, interesting, unpredictable.

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.

Situational variables can exert powerful influences over human behavior, more so that we recognize or acknowledge.

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.

Careers in virtually all academic disciplines are fostered by being a superstar who knows more about one subject than anyone else in the world.