Stanley Milgram Quotes

I have often observ'd the loudest Laughers to be the dullest Fellows in the Company.

I never gossip. I observe. And then relay my observations to practically everyone.

I have an inate curiosity about people.

I'm curious about people. That's what I've always done since I've been a small boy. I'm curious about others.

You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.

I watch people constantly.

Gossip. The more you talk about why people do things, the more ideas you have about how the world works.

I was primarily interested in people, and people in action, so that I did nothing photographically in the sense of doing buildings for their own sake or a still life or anything like that.

Americans cannot realize how many chances for mental improvement they lose by their inveterate habit of keeping six conversations when there are twelve in the room.

What is the most interesting thing to people? Other people.

I have a natural curiosity for people.

Walking around sometimes, I would love to just be able to watch people, see how they act. Sometimes I would love to be invisible.

Thence, I suppose, my natural disposition to make fresh acquaintances, and to break with them so readily, although always for a good reason, and never through mere fickleness.

I love people, watching people interact. It's a lot of psychology. We learn about ourselves by watching other people's lives on the screen.

Study nature, not books.

I like people-watching and fading into crowds.

Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

It is human nature that rules the world, not governments ...

I'm fascinated by real-time behavior.

I love to see what real human behavior looks like. I've always envisioned my job as just observing and noting that and, for the purposes of my work, just cutting out the boring parts.

Every interaction with another person involves a dance of expectation, even when you're just passing someone in the street. Inside those moments - however brief they may be - there is a kind of anticipatory silence.

All animals communicate. What's special about gossip is that it's not about the here and now. You don't gossip about lions. You don't gossip about clouds. You only gossip about other people. And once you do, you can keep track of many more people - this is the basis for forming larger communities.

To be located in society means to be at the intersection point of specific social forces. Commonly one ignores these forces one also knows that there is not an awful lot that one can do about this.

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.