Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

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.

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.

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)

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.