"While I was a subject in 1964, though I believed that I was hurting someone, I was totally unaware of why I was doing so. Few people ever realize when they are acting according to their own beliefs and when they are meekly submitting to authority."
— Stanley Milgram

January 1, 1970

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Unnamed participant in the Milgram experiment, in a letter to Milgram, thanking him for the lessons it taught him, as quoted in Ugly as Sin : The Truth about How We Look and Finding Freedom from Self-Hatred (2010) by Toni Raiten-D'Antonio, p. 89