Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

" 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

Related Quotes:

" Koreans love to dance; they love to sing. If you actually know Koreans, you see how absurd the stereotype of the 'Asian robot' is. They love to laugh - they're very affectionate. Maybe because of their history of oppression, when they feel you are part of their tribe, they are intensely loyal. I love that about Koreans! "

" Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought. "

Charles Spurgeon

" There aren't just bad people that commit genocide; we are all capable of it. It's our evolutionary history. "

" Before it was revealed that my character on 'Lost' had a troubled history, a fan came up to me and said, 'Wow, you're a really nice guy.' To me, that was a compliment, having played a very villainous guy. "

Nestor Carbonell

" Peru was the Incas; it has 3,000 to 4,000 years of history. "

" Martha Washington. I think she's done herself a disservice in history with a little cap, you know? She looks like a namby-pamby little grandmotherly type, but she turned out to be a very strong woman. "

" 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. "

Philip Zimbardo

" The price of diamonds can vary greatly depending on size, cut, color, and other factors, including whether they have a history. But because of the rarity of blue boron diamonds, they often fetch more money than gems of similar quality. "

" We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history. "

" No one believes more strongly than I do that every Christian should be a theologian. In that sense, we all need to work it out. I want all Christians who can read, to read their Bibles and to read beyond the Bible - to read the history and theology. "

" I've always really, really wanted to go to Egypt and go inside some pyramids and just hang out there. I don't know why. I don't like hot weather, and I don't like the desert, but something about the pyramid and the mummies and all their history there, I'd love to go check it out. "

Jean-Luc Bilodeau

" In the years that I worked in museums, first as a summer student and eventually as a curator, one of the primary lessons I learned was this: History is shaped by the people who seek to preserve it. We, of the present, decide what to keep, what to put on display, what to put into storage, and what to discard. "

Susanna Kearsley

" Today's headlines and history's judgment are rarely the same. "

Condoleezza Rice

" Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism. "

Simon Mainwaring

" You don't hate history, you hate the way it was taught to you in high school. "

Stephen Ambrose

" Hillary Clinton was the worst Secretary of State in the history of the country. The world came apart under her reign as Secretary of State. "

" I think the rise of China is one of the great events of all economic and human history, and I think this will be overwhelmingly a positive thing for the region and the world. "

" I was an English major at Brown. I never enjoyed history classes. "

Nathaniel Philbrick

" We are born, we live, we disappear. One of the chilling aspects of history is the swiftness with which it carries us into oblivion. "

David Ebershoff

" By 1892, enlightenment had progressed to the point where the Salem trials were simply an embarrassing blot on the history of New England. They were a part of the past that was best forgotten: a reminder of how far the human race had come in two centuries. "

" The real violence is committed in the writing of history, the records of the legal system, the reporting of news, through the manipulation of social contracts, and the control of information. "

Bryant H. McGill

" Theories of history used to be supernatural: the divine ruled time; the hand of God, a special providence, lay behind the fall of each sparrow. If the present differed from the past, it was usually worse: supernatural theories of history tend to involve decline, a fall from grace, the loss of God's favor, corruption. "

" You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lines. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I'll rise. "

" No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing. "

" The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. "

" My earliest books focus almost entirely on psychological tools to help readers employ effective commonsense approaches to problems. There are no references to God or a higher self in the first 15 or so years of my publishing history. "

" My view of my role is that together with like-minded men and women, I could help contribute to a bipartisan view of American engagement in the world for another period; I could do my part to overcome this really, in a way, awful period in which we are turning history into personal recriminations, depriving our political system of a serious debate. "

Henry Kissinger

" American history is longer, larger, more various, more beautiful, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it. "

James A. Baldwin

" My first popular book, 'A Brief History of Time,' aroused a great deal of interest, but many found it difficult to understand. "

Stephen Hawking

" The only thing that interests me is history - reviewing the past and making something out of it. "