Philip Zimbardo Quotes
Many cults start off with high ideals that get corrupted by leaders or their board of advisors who become power-hungry and dominate and control members' lives. No group with high ideals starts off as a 'cult'; they become one when their errant ways are exposed.
Zimbardo, Philip. "What messages are behind today's cults?" Monitor on Psychology, vol. 28, no. 5, May 1997, p. 14.
This was utilized (without attribution) to attack the press by British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin in a famous campaign speech in 1931.
This is a variation of the famous Lord Acton quotation: {292904}.
Philip George Zimbardo is an American psychologist and a professor emeritus at Stanford University. He became known for his 1971 Stanford prison experiment, which was later severely criticised for both ethical and scientific reasons. He has authored various introductory psychology textbooks for college students, and other notable works, including The Lucifer Effect, The Time Paradox, and The Time Cure. He is also the founder and president of the Heroic Imagination Project.
