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

For a person to feel responsible for his actions, he must sense that the behavior has flowed from the self.

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.

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

The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.

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

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.