Philip Zimbardo Quotes

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

He who speaks evil only differs from his who does evil in that he lacks opportunity.

Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

Not every action or emotion however admits of the observance of a due mean. Indeed the very names of some directly imply evil, for instance malice, shamelessness, envy, and, of actions, adultery, theft, murder. All these and similar actions and feelings are blamed as being bad in themselves; it is not the excess or deficiency of them that we blame. It is impossible therefore ever to go right in regard to them - one must always be wrong.

I see what is right and approve, but I do what is wrong.

The true nature of evil is that it is so very casual.

When evil acts in the world it always manages to find instruments who believe that what they do is not evil but honorable.

This is the essential evil of vice, that it debases man.

No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.

For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.

The omission of good is no less reprehensible than the commission of evil.

We all have faults, and mine is being wicked.

Evil is only good perverted.

Some are wrong because they are not strong enough to fight temptation and some some are wrong because they do not know.

In no nook or corner of his head or heart is there the slightest sense of truth or justice.... Morally speaking, his mind must be a howling wilderness.

… the most depraved wretches on earth.

Man produces evil as a bee produces honey.

Evil is real.

I think almost anyone is capable of doing things that are evil or hurtful or harmful.

There are a lot of bad people out there.

Vice is its own reward.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.