“Fear is the State's psychological weapon of choice to frighten citizens into sacrificing their basic freedoms and rule-of-law protections in exchange for the security promised by their all-powerful government.”

Source: The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil

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American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Exp… 1933

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