And Perhaps Our Awareness Is The First

I Started With The Belief That Every Person Who Came To The Laboratory Was Free To Accept Or To Reject The Dictates Of Authority. This View Sustains A Conception Of Human Dignity Insofar As It Sees In Each Man A Capacity For Choosing His Own Behavior. And As It Turned Out, Many Subjects Did, Indeed, Choose To Reject The Experimenter's Commands, Providing A Powerful Affirmation Of Human Ideals.

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.

Obedience Is The Psychological Mechanism That Links Individual Action To Political Purpose. It Is The Dispositional Cement That Binds Men To Systems Of Authority.

Relatively Few People Have The Resources Needed To Resist Authority.

Even Eichmann Was Sickened When He Toured The Concentration Camps.