For A Person To Feel Responsible For

The Disappearance Of A Sense Of Responsibility Is The Most Far-reaching Consequence Of Submission To Authority.

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.

Only In Action Can You Fully Realize The Forces Operative In Social Behavior. That Is Why I Am An Experimentalist.

Each Individual Possesses A Conscience Which To A Greater Or Lesser Degree Serves To Restrain The Unimpeded Flow Of Impulses Destructive To Others. But When He Merges His Person Into An Organizational Structure, A New Creature Replaces Autonomous Man, Unhindered By The Limitations Of Individual Morality, Freed Of Humane Inhibition, Mindful Only Of The Sanctions Of 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.