It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

- 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 and he th…

- Stanley Milgram

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

- 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 …

- 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 these experiments,…

- Stanley Milgram

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

- Stanley Milgram

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

- Stanley Milgram

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as t…

- Stanley Milgram

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

- Stanley Milgram