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 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.

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 want to be like Gandhi and Martin Luther King and John Lennon but i want to STAY ALIVE.

The future is uncertain but the end is always near.

Trees don't sneak on you."-Brook Where Small Fish Swim

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

On sand, you can never be sure of anything. An ordinary shot can take a wicked deflection at the last moment.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

Perfect harmony of body and mind are my key to personal balance and happiness.

I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

I used to own a dingy and can still sail one if pushed, but I like the pleasure boats.

I am starting a collection of only right-hand gloves. It’s ever so bourgeois to have two.