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The variety of political forms we have seen in history are only several of many possible political arrangements. Perhaps the next step is to invent and to explore political forms that will give conscience a better chance to resist errant authority.

— Stanley Milgram The Social Dimensions Of Law And Justice In Contemporary India (1979)

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Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others.

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Lynch mobs and groups of predatory hoodlums remind us that groups may be vicious in the influence they exert.

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When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group.

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If you think it is easy to violate social constraints, get onto a bus and sing out loud.

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The social psychology of this century reveals a major lesson: often 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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