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


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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.



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



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Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.



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



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



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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.

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.

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.

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





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