Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist 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.

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.

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.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.