"The "Lucifer Effect" describes the point in time when an ordinary, normal person first crosses the boundary between good and evil to engage in an evil action. It represents a transformation of human character that is significant in its consequences. Such transformations are more likely to occur in novel settings, in "total situations," where social situational forces are sufficiently powerful to overwhelm, or set aside temporally, personal attributes of morality, compassion, or sense of justice and fair play."

Source : "Who was Lucifer and how did he become the Devil?". 2007.

Philip Zimbardo

#Powerful Quotes #Character Quotes #Compassion Quotes

“The cultures of the Americas were extremely complex and interesting, with their own languages and observatories to watch the stars. The more you know about them the more you realize how extremely impressive they were. Bloodthirsty, though, I think they were as well.”
“A North Korean soldier would later recall a buddy who had been given an American-made nail clipper and was showing it off to his friends. The soldier clipped a few nails, admired the sharp, clean edges, and marveled at the mechanics of this simple item. Then he realized with a sinking heart: If North Korea couldnâ€™t make such a fine nail clipper, how could it compete with American weapons?”

Source : Barbara Demick (2010). “Nothing To Envy: Real Lives In North Korea”, p.168, Granta
“Never before in human history have so few owed so much to so many, Mr. Jiabao. A handful of men in this country have trained the remaining 99.9 percentâ€”as strong, as talented, as inteligent in every wayâ€”to exist in perpetual servitude; a servitude so strong that you can put the key of his emancipation in a man's hands and he will throw it back at you with a curse.”

Source : "Scott Pelley: ‘We’re Getting the Big Stories Wrong, Over and Over Again’". Scott Pelley's speech at the accepting his Fred Friendly First Amendment award at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Club in New York, www.adweek.com. May 10, 2013.
“...this moment... is the only physical reality you have.”
“Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.”

Source : Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs
“What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder.”
“I'm very much involved with Asian art and its theory and practice, mainly Chinese because that was quite sophisticated. I tend to look at that more than I look the Western.”
“The integrative tendencies of the individual are incomparably more dangerous than his self-assertive tendencies.”

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