Philip Zimbardo Quotes

It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.

It's inevitable your environment will influence what you do.

I think that you form the way that you act from others around you; it's a kind of an environmental thing.

I really do believe in the influence of your surroundings.

The rotten apple spoils his companion.

Bad company corrupts good character.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

Capitalism attacks and destroys all the finer sentiments of the human heart; it ruthlessly sweeps away old traditions and ideas opposed to its progress, and it exploits and corrupts those things once held sacred.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

The more you pander to what is, presumably, the taste of young people, the more you corrupt.

Power, like a desolating pestilence, Pollutes whate'er it touches

The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved by such circumstances... [Slavery]

As many an architect will tell you, human behavior changes according to the environment.

We are influenced by the ideas we hear and the people we meet.

I made a lot of money, but you can dangerously let it lead you on. It depends what company you keep.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

When you mix raisins and turds, you've still got turds.

Not everyone's life is what they make it. Some people's life is what other people make it.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

The man who lives by himself and for himself is likely to be corrupted by the company he keeps.

You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved.

He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.

The devil stole into the Garden of Eden. He carried with him the disease - amor deliria nervosa - in the form of a seed. It grew and flowered into a magnificent apple tree, which bore apples as bright as blood. -From Genesis: A Complete History of the World and the Known Universe, by Steven Horace, PhD, Harvard University

All badness is spoiled goodness. A bad apple is a good apple that became rotten. Because evil has no capital of its own, it is a parasite that feeds on goodness.