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

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

Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process.

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.

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

Obedience is the psychological mechanism that links individual action to political purpose. It is the dispositional cement that binds men to systems of 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.

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

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

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.

The thing which makes one man greater than another, the quality by which we ought to measure greatness, is a man's capacity for loving.

But she had that laugh, and the sound of it was so beautiful that when you heard it, it was as if your eyes saw her through your ears and she was transformed.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

This crown to crown the laughing man, this rose-wreath crown: I myself have set this crown upon my head, I myself have pronounced my laughter holy.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him.

Good men are not those who now and then do a good act, but men who join one good act to another.

The market is like a language, and you have to be able to understand what they're saying.

I've always looked on myself as one of a band and never sought a solo career.