Quotes About Milgram Obedience

#1. I decide I'm not dead because I can hear the sound of the rain hitting the roof of the car. I'm alive because I'm listening to the rain, and the rain becomes the hand of God strumming his fingers on the roof, deciding what to do.

Lisa Genova

#2. 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

#3. Amateurs want to be right. Professionals want to make money.

Alan Greenspan

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

Stanley Milgram

#5. The voice of women, the voice of those most closely involved in bringing forth new life, has not always been listened to when it pleaded and implored against the waste of life in war after war.

Betty Williams

#6. The child will reveal himself through work.

Maria Montessori

#7. 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

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

Ashim Shanker

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. This place is too calm, too natural
too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.

Haruki Murakami

#12. Prayer will get you out of a pinch, prayer will get you out of a crises, prayer will get you out of your dilemma, prayer will get you out of your trouble.

T.D. Jakes

#13. One thing I cannot stand is when people say, 'Hi, how are you?' and they don't wait to hear how I am. They're just going through the motions. I say to people: 'Keep it human. Keep it alive. Don't turn into a robot.' You have to hear what the other person is saying clearly.

Judith Jamison

#14. I know I was alright on Friday when I got up; if anything I was feeling more stolid than usual.

Margaret Atwood