Authority Quote by Stanley Milgram Download Open image “Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.” — Stanley Milgram ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Authority Needed Obedience to authority People Resources
The less people know about what is really going on, the easier it is to wield power and authority. — Prince Charles Copy Share Image
Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many. — Maggie Kuhn Copy Share Image
Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government… — Ferdinand Marcos Copy Share Image
Leadership is scarce because few people are willing to go through the discomfort required to lead. — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
People have the most control over their affairs at the grass-roots level. Anything that can be fairly and efficiently handled at a grass-roots level… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
The problem for many people isn't that they lack personal power and discipline. It is that they have already invested it in agreements about… — Senora Roy Copy Share Image
Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
In many countries, the authority of the state is weak and openly defied by militias and terrorist groups. In others, state forces themselves act… — David Lidington 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
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
Although a person acting under authority performs actions that seem to violate standards of conscience, it would not be true to say that he… — Stanley Milgram Copy Share Image
I don't believe in competitions between artists. This is insane. Who has the authority to say someone is better? — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
Islam never differentiates between men and women as regards political rights and puts them on an equal footing. However, even if a woman is… — Yusuf al-Qaradawi Copy Share Image
I think people need to be comfortable questioning the authority of a doctor. — Susannah Cahalan Copy Share Image
At a distance, we cannot conceive of the authority of a despot who knows all his subjects on sight. — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where we are… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
“I'm of the age and immaturity level that I cannot give you my respect solely because you are older or ranked higher on an… — Erica Goros Copy Share Image
In the end theologians are jealous of science, for they are aware that it has greater authority than do their own ways of finding… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
Every wife ought to answer for her man. If the husband be engaged in a seditious club, or drinks mysterious healths, or be frugal… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Miracles are like candles lit up until the sun rises, and then blown out. Therefore, I am amused when I hear sects and churches… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The execution was set for the 29th of March, at nine in the morning. This delay was due to a desire on the part… — Jorge Luis Borges 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
The rationale which accompanies that imposition of male authority euphemistically referred to as 'the battle of the sexes' bears a certain resemblance to the… — Kate Millett Copy Share Image
