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.
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The key to the behavior of subjects lies not in pent-up anger or aggression, but in the nature of their relationship to authority. They have given themselves to the authority they see themselves as instruments for the execution of his wishes once so defined, they are unable to break free.Stanley Milgram
The state produced in the laboratory may be likened to a light doze, compared to the profound slumber induced by the preponent authority system of a national government.
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With numbing regularity, good people were seen to knuckle under the demands of authority and perform actions that were callous and severe,
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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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