Stanley Milgram Quotes
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.
It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.
For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.
