Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he loses his moral sense. Instead, it acquires a radically different focus. He does not respond with… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group.… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
“It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were built, death… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority. — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
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… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
