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What happens when good people are put into an evil place? Do they triumph or does the situation dominate their past history and morality?
Philip Zimbardo
Good
History
People
Evil
Good People
Past
Situation
Morality
Triumph
Put
Does
Past History
Dominate
Happens
Place
After doing psychology for half a century, my passion for all of it is greater than ever.
Philip Zimbardo
Passion
Half
Greater
Doing
Than
After
Psychology
Century
Ever
What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.
Philip Zimbardo
Alone
Time
Me
Technology
People
Internet
Revolution
Other
Spending
Face-To-Face
Chat
Troubles
Part
Contact
Isolated
Huge
Huge Amounts
So Many People
Which
Rooms
Fueled
Electronic
Many
Amount
Shyness
Ideas for my first experiments in human aggression came from discussions we had in a research seminar about William Golding's 'Lord of the Flies.'
Philip Zimbardo
First
Research
William
About
Had
Ideas
Lord
Came
Seminar
Discussions
Human
Experiments
Aggression
Flies
Rule A: Don't. Rule A1: Rule A doesn't exist. Rule A2: Do not discuss the existence or non-existence of Rules A, A1 or A2.
R. D. Laing
Rule
Rules
Non-Existence
Exist
Existence
Discuss
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
R. D. Laing
Love
You
Imagination
Easily
Give
Up
Curiosity
Get
Children
To Love
Them
Innate
There is no such condition as 'schizophrenia', but the label is a social fact and the social fact a political event.
R. D. Laing
Political
Schizophrenia
Fact
Condition
Label
Social
Event
In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
Ram Dass
Death
Culture
Our
Out
Detachment
Both
Allowing
Come
Openly
Although
Still
Western
Western Culture
Discussed
Intensely
Closet
Experienced
Dying
Moment
Each
Present
I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.
Ram Dass
Love
Day
Heart
Every
Universe
All Day
Out
Guru
Hang
Thing
When I look at relationships, my own and others, I see a wide range of reasons for people to be together and ways in which they are together. I see ways in which a relationship - which means something that exists between two or more people - for the most part reinforces people's separateness as individual entities.
Ram Dass
Relationship
Together
People
Own
Others
Relationships
Range
Ways
See
Something
Entities
My Own
More
More People
Individual
Part
Between
Look
Most
Exists
Which
Means
Separateness
Reasons
Wide
Wide Range
Two
Myths give us our sense of personal identity, answering the question, 'Who am I?'
Rollo May
Sense
Our
Give
Myths
Identity
Am
Answering
Question
Personal
Personal Identity
Us
Who
Who Am I
Creativity is not merely the innocent spontaneity of our youth and childhood; it must also be married to the passion of the adult human being, which is a passion to live beyond one's death.
Rollo May
Death
Youth
Creativity
Human Being
Passion
Innocent
Live
Our
Married
Must
Adult
Merely
Spontaneity
Beyond
Also
Childhood
Human
Being
Which
The relationship between commitment and doubt is by no means an antagonistic one. Commitment is healthiest when it's not without doubt but in spite of doubt.
Rollo May
Relationship
Commitment
Doubt
Spite
Between
Without
Antagonistic
Means
One does not become fully human painlessly.
Rollo May
Become
Does
Human
Fully
Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief.
Sigmund Freud
Unbelief
No-One
Forced
Just
Belief
Sadism is all right in its place, but it should be directed to proper ends.
Sigmund Freud
Proper
Directed
Sadism
Ends
Place
Should
Right
The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
Stanislav Grof
Life
Great
Relationship
World
Our
Impact
Concerning
Human
Ethical
Human Life
Beliefs
Reincarnation
A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
Stanislav Grof
Hope
Transformation
Radical
Crisis
Paradigm
Brought
Rise
Only
New
Global
Real
New Level
Western
Dominance
Current
Might
Level
Consciousness
Inner
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
Tara Brach
Life
Love
Me
Prayer
Peace
Experience
Matter
Whatever
Carry
Find
Seeking
Could
Through
Come
Became
Losses
May
Refuge
Might
Wholeness
Presence
Inner
The man who has never made a fool of himself in love will never be wise in love.
Theodor Reik
Love
Wise
Man
Fool
Will
Made
Never
Himself
Who
'Psychotherapy' is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
Thomas Szasz
Conversation
Healing
Nothing
Medicine
Private
Confidential
Psychotherapy
Illness
Mental illness, of course, is not literally a 'thing' - or physical object - and hence it can 'exist' only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.
Thomas Szasz
Other
Way
Physical
Object
Mental
Mental Illness
Only
Concepts
Sort
Course
Exist
Same
Literally
Which
Theoretical
Illness
Hence
Thing
It is easier to do one's duty to others than to one's self. If you do your duty to others, you are considered reliable. If you do your duty to yourself, you are considered selfish.
Thomas Szasz
You
Selfish
Yourself
Duty
Others
Considered
Easier
Reliable
Self
Than
Your
In the past, men created witches: now they create mental patients.
Thomas Szasz
Men
Past
Mental
Witches
Patients
In The Past
Create
Created
Now
Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.
Thomas Szasz
Mind
Guilt
Responsibility
Collective
Men
Society
Distinctions
Punishment
Moral
Individual
Individual Responsibility
Democratic
Because
Odious
Which
Prefer
Meaningful
Meaningless
Creates
Now
Among
The system isn't stupid, but the people in it are.
Thomas Szasz
People
Stupid
System
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