Compliance Quote by Stanley Milgram

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

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

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

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

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

— Stanley Milgram

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

“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

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

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

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

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

— Stanley Milgram

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