Thursday, July 12, 2012

Milgram: Obedience to Authority

“ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”
― Stanley Milgram, Obedience to Authority 


“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to 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 perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation." (1974)

― Stanley Milgram 

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