“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”
英语
“责任感的消失是服从权威最深远的后果。”
“Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.”
英语
“普通人只是在做本职工作，他们自身并无任何特别的敌意，却能成为可怕的毁灭性过程中的工具。而且，即使当他们工作的破坏性后果变得显而易见，即使他们被要求执行与基本道德准则不相容的行为，也只有极少数人拥有抵抗权威所需的资源。”
“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.”
英语
“也许我们是提线木偶——被社会的绳线操控。但至少我们是有感知、有意识的木偶。而也许，这意识就是我们通向解放的第一步。”
“The essence of obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as the instrument for carrying out another person's wishes, and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.”
英语
“服从的本质在于：一个人开始将自己视为执行他人意愿的工具，因此不再把自己看作行为的责任人。”
“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.”
英语
“每个人都拥有良知，在不同程度上约束着对他人的破坏性冲动。但当他将自身融入一个组织结构时，一种新的生物取代了自主的人——不再受个体道德的限制。”
“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.”
英语
“本世纪的社会心理学揭示了一个重要教训：决定一个人行为方式的，往往不是他是什么样的人，而是他身处什么样的情境。”
“A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act and without limitations of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.”
英语
“相当大比例的人会按照被告知的去做，不论行为的内容如何，不受良知的限制，只要他们认为命令来自合法的权威。”