But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

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.

But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes a far greater danger to human survival.

Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.

And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation.