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

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)

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

Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

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

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.