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.

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

Human behavior is incredibly pliable, plastic.

That human behavior is more influenced by things outside of us than inside. The 'situation' is the external environment. The inner environment is genes, moral history, religious training.

The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.

Of all human inventions the organization, a machine constructed of people performing interdependent functions, is the most powerful.