Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

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

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

If you put good apples into a bad situation, you’ll get bad apples.

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

Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.

Being hurt personally triggered a curiosity about how such beliefs are formed.

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.

Time perspective is one of the most powerful influences on all of human behavior. We're trying to show how people become biased to being exclusively past-, present- or future-oriented.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

Every evil starts with 15 volts.

Just the thought of you fills my heart with love.

Compassion stands on the pillars of trust, love, awareness and detachment.

Earthly authorities respect only visible and tangible forces

O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers.

It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.

You can't sustain a fan base on a great catalog alone. You must take your music directly to the people.

And at home in the United States we found continued and increased persecution, first of leaders of the Communist Party, and then of all honest anti-fascists.

The best leaders operate in four dimensions: vision, reality, ethics, and courage.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic.