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

It may be that we are puppets-puppets controlled by the strings of society. But at least we are puppets with perception, with awareness. And perhaps our awareness is the first step to our liberation. (1974)

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

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.

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

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