Milgram Quotes

#1. The first time I spoke publicly about the Stanford Prison Experiment, Stanley Milgram told me: Your study is going to take all the ethical heat off of my back. People are now going to say yours is the most unethical study ever, and not mine.

Philip Zimbardo

#2. I was also beginning to learn about social psychology and the Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures, which made me think about how malleable our supposedly strict moral codes become in the right conditions. Something that DIVERGENT grapples with.

Veronica Roth

#3. It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath.

William Shakespeare

#4. Sometimes even now I think I see him in the street or standing in a window or bent over a book in a coffee shop. And in that instant, before I understand that it's someone else, my lungs tighten and I lose my breath.

Siri Hustvedt

#5. 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

#6. A one-eyed man with a knife in hand, looking for someone else's eye to poke out.

Veronica Roth

#7. It 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

#8. The thing about the classics it that they are such great characters, they have a great deal of depth and different layers to them. I always find that very stimulating to play.

Frances O'Connor

#9. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.

Stanley Milgram

#10. 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.

Stanley Milgram

#11. If you aren't you, we don't get you.

Max Lucado

#12. Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

Stanley Milgram

#13. When I come in from the beach at night, I'm too hungry to wait for anything that takes very long.

Nell Newman

#14. People won't admit it, they're too busy grabbing to see that the lights have fused. They can't see the darkness and the spider-face beyond and the great web of it all. That there's always this if you scratch at the surface of happiness and goodness.
The black and the black and the black.

John Fowles

#15. I knew why I cared. Why this mattered so much. Why his opinion was the only thing that mattered. I was more than crushing on him. I loved Braden.

Kasie West

#16. For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

Stanley Milgram

#17. If someone is confronting our essential liberties, if someone is inflicting injuries and harm, by God I'll confront them!

Margaret Thatcher

#18. Obligation is a more effective weapon against the Will than any penalty, threat or act of force.

Ashim Shanker

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

Stanley Milgram

#20. 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.

Stanley Milgram

#21. Men become much more attractive when they start looking older. But it doesn't do much for women, though we do have an advantage: make-up.

Bette Davis

#22. If only a horrible storm can demolish the castle of the devil, then let the storm be victorious! It is not uncommon that heaven comes after hell!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#23. I look around at people who had success so early and then didn't know what to do with themselves.

Casey Nicholaw

#24. From a simple, mammal perspective, you think you're going to make friends through the movie. You think, "Oh, this kind of humor that I play with will bring people that have a similar kind of humor. I'll make new friends," or something. You don't even think in terms of audience or of money.

Gaspar Noe

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

Stanley Milgram

#26. This isn't kissing. This is savoring your taste.

Nicole Jordan

#27. 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

#28. 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.

Stanley Milgram

#29. 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.

Stanley Milgram

#30. 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 therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.

Stanley Milgram

#31. Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps ...

Stanley Milgram

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

Stanley Milgram