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 MilgramFor a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.
Stanley MilgramOnly in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.
Stanley MilgramIt is not so much the kind of person a man is as the kind of situation in which he finds himself that determines how he will act.
Stanley Milgram