Destructive Process Quotes by Stanley Milgram

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Stanley Milgram has 19 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
• The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see…
• The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another…
• It is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself…
• A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs…
• When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in…
• And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
• Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
• Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
• I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates…
• Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to…
• Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

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