And Perhaps Our Awareness Is

I Started With The Belief That Every Person Who Came To The Laboratory Was Free To Accept Or To Reject The Dictates Of Authority. This View Sustains A Conception Of Human Dignity Insofar As It Sees In Each Man A Capacity For Choosing His Own Behavior. And As It Turned Out, Many Subjects Did, Indeed, Choose To Reject The Experimenter's Commands, Providing A Powerful Affirmation Of Human Ideals.

It Is Easy To Ignore Responsibility When One Is Only An Intermediate Link In A Chain Of Action.

It May Be That We Are Puppets-puppets Controlled By The Strings Of Society. But At Least We Are Puppets With Perception, With Awareness. And Perhaps Our Awareness Is The First Step To Our Liberation. (1974)

When An Individual Wishes To Stand In Opposition To Authority, He Does Best To Find Support For His Position From Others In His Group. The Mutual Support Provided By Men For Each Other Is The Strongest Bulwark We Have Against The Excesses Of 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.