Awareness Quote by Stanley Milgram

“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 perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.” quote by Stanley Milgram — Download Open 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 perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.”

Stanley Milgram

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I started with the belief that every person who came to the laboratory was free to accept or to reject the dictates of authority. This view sustains a conception of human dignity insofar as it sees in each man a capacity for choosing his own behavior. And as it turned out, many subjects did, indeed, choose to reject the experimenter's…

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Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.

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When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group.…

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Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

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Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But…

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“It has been reliably established that from 1933 to 1945 millions of innocent people were systematically slaughtered on command. Gas chambers were built, death camps were guarded, daily quotas of corpses were produced with the same efficiency as the manufacture of appliances. These inhumane policies may have originated in the mind of a single person, but they could only have…

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I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by…

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The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system…

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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…

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The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

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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.

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Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he…

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