I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my … - Stanley Milgram

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Little information is published on prisons, it is one of the hidden regions of our social system, one of the dark zones of our life.

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, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.

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

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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.

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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)

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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 they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

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

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