Relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority.

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.

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

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

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.

The wishbone will never replace the backbone

I never liked telling war stories. Some men love to tell them. Hell, some men need to. They need to convince themselves that the war is over. But I'm not one of them.

She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

When you look at what people consider success in the music industry, it's just terrible music.

Technology and violence are interdependent.

This is the most exciting part of being human. It is using our brains in the highest way. Otherwise we are just healthy animals

Do not measure the number of tragedies you sustain, but to quantify the success you derive from them.

My parents, and their interest in making the world a better place for more people inspired me.

Philanthropic and religious bodies do not commonly make their executive officers out of saints.

You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the Grim Reaper.