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

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.

Each individual possesses a conscience which to a greater or lesser degree serves to restrain the unimpeded flow of impulses destructive to others. But when he merges his person into an organizational structure, a new creature replaces autonomous man, unhindered by the limitations of individual morality, freed of humane inhibition, mindful only of the sanctions of authority.

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

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.