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

Only in action can you fully realize the forces operative in social behavior. That is why I am an experimentalist.

It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.

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.

Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

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.

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