"What's the independent variable in your study? Have you introduced a variable that might influence your outcome? This is an experiment, right? Not just a simulation."
"It was an experiment, and I went along with it, but I really hate myself right now.
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You did nothing wrong. That was just protocol.
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Protocol? Back in that room, i became everything I've hated for so long, and I let it happen. And I enjoyed it. You can't possibly understand how it makes me feel."
"We have become part of this experiment, whether we like it or not, and frankly, i don't even think that we can call this an experiment anymore.」
"You... Of all people, I thought would understand what I have tapped into in my prison.
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Your prison? Oh, my god. You are so in over your head. Those are not prisoners. Those are not subjects. They 're not students. Those are boys, Phil. Those are boys,and you are harming them. You need to fix this."
"I said to myself at the beginning of the first day, "this could be a very long, very boring experiment." Uh, it wasn't conceivable. There was just no strong sense of precedent for how far this thing could go."
"It's easy for you to say, "oh, I wouldn't have acted that way." But you don't know. That's the truth. You don't know. And now, I know what I'm capable of, and it hurts. That I don't know-l don't know how else to say it ,but it does hurt me to know that.」
「You know, and I knew right away it was wrong, and I was the only one that could see it. You know, anyone could see it except for these guys. You know, you give them the uniform with the glasses and the nightstick , and they simply can't be the same person as if they wore street clothes. Meanwhile, I'm just a number in a dress. That's the thing; I wasn't a prisoner in an experiment. I was their prisoner.」
「I really felt that I was losing my identity, that this person that I call Tom was disappearing. and it was a prison to me. It still is a prison to me. You know, I don't look at it as an experiment or a simulation at all. It was a prison that was run by psychologists instead of by the state.”
“This whole experience harms me, and I mean "harms" in the present tense. It harms me.”
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