History Quotes

"In the concentration camps, we discovered that man has two faces, and I was not at all surprised by this."

"The concentration camps taught me that human nature has capacity for both extreme evil and extreme good."

"History repeatedly shows that good people can commit terrible acts under the wrong circumstances."

"Our past commitments shape our present beliefs."

"We must study not just extraordinary acts of evil, but the ordinary circumstances that breed them."

"History teaches us that societies prosper when they embrace behavioral science."

"History teaches us that those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it."

"History teaches us that ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances can do extraordinary things—both good and bad."

"History teaches us the laws of behavioral change."

"The results of our experiments speak to something fundamental about social organization."

"Institutional contexts transform ordinary people into perpetrators."

"Understanding obedience illuminates the darker chapters of human history."

"Human beings are capable of extraordinary cruelty when it is institutionally sanctioned."

"The conditions that produce obedience are not anomalous but inherent to social structures."

"To stand alone is to stand in the tradition of all those who have seen truly."

"The Stanford Prison Experiment revealed uncomfortable truths about human nature that we cannot ignore."

"Our civilization is characterized by the word progress."

"History is the record of how different environments have conditioned different peoples."

"I set out to create a laboratory model of the essential features of the Holocaust."

"Evil often hides behind bureaucracy and the diffusion of responsibility."

"The psychology of power reveals its corrupting nature across cultures and times."

"Evil often wears the mask of duty, authority, and nationalism."

"History is the story of man's recurring failure to listen to those who came before."

"History is the record of human behavioral patterns across time."

"Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who didn't discover it."

"History repeats itself for those who don't learn from it"

"History repeats itself because nobody was paying attention the first time."

"History is written by those who take action."

"History repeats itself until humanity learns the lessons it offers."

"History teaches us what we have forgotten and what we must remember."