Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

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

When an individual wishes to stand in opposition to authority, he does best to find support for his position from others in his group. The mutual support provided by men for each other is the strongest bulwark we have against the excesses of authority.

The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance.

A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.

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