List of Stanley Milgram Quotes

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Stanley Milgram
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Some system of authority is a requirement of all communal living, and it is only the man dwelling in isolation who is not forced to respond, through defiance or submission, to the commands of others.
Men Dwelling Isolation
Even eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.
Concentration Concentration Camp Camps
But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. for this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.
Survival Culture Action
Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. that is why i am an experimentalist.
Social Behavior Action Realizing
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 commands, providing a powerful affirmation of human ideals.
Powerful Men Views
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.
Patriotic Soldier Patriotism
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
Giving Political Challenges
For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
Self Action Behavior
When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. the mutual support provided by men for each other is the strongest bulwark we have against the excesses of authority.
Men Mutual Support Wish
Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. but when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.
Men Flow Degrees
And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.
Puppets Firsts Steps
Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. it is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of authority.
Men Political Purpose
  • Born: August 15, 1933
  • Died: December 20, 1984
  • Occupation: Psychologist
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