Even Eichmann was sickened when he toured the concentration camps.

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.

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.

It's silly to think the left eye would envy the right or that one foot would be jealous of the other, and yet so often it is the case.

There was hardly an eminent writer in Paris who was unacquainted with the inside of the Conciergerie or the Bastille.

If there's anything a public servant hates to do it's something for the public.

If you cannot worship the Lord in the midst of your responsibilitie s on Monday, it is not very likely that you were worshiping on Sunday!

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Love you..." Henry-" Always..." Oh God oh God-" World enough..." No!" And time..." Henry!

What a strange thing is man! And what a stranger is woman.

It's pointless to go against digital because sooner or later you won't be able to do anything else.

It would not take a monster to destroy a monster - but light, light to drive out darkness.

I have faith that a script is going to hit me like a ton of bricks, and when that happens, it's undeniable that I should choose the role.