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Stanley Milgram

"Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority."

Source : "Obedience to Authority : An Experimental View". Book by Stanley Milgram, p. 188, 1974.

Stanley Milgram

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