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.

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

When you say "I will do it", you will stretch your capabilities and achieve something extraordinary.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

I go home and stay there. I wash and scrub up each day, and that's it. One month I actually grew a moustache, just so I could say that I'd done something.

Roger, Tranquility. Be advised there are lots of smiling faces in this room and all over the world. Over.

Ah, what a life is theirs who live in Christ; How vast the mystery! Reaching in height to heaven, and in its depth The unfathomed sea!

My father - I once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said his greatest achievement was that he fought in five wars in the infantry, always on the front line, and never hurt anybody.

The Constitution doesn't mention rain.

I've found out that money is the most important thing in the world and, as God is my witness, I don't ever intend to be without it again. I'll never be hungry again.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

Effort is the key, but direction and loyalty are paramount.