When An Individual Wishes To Stand In

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)

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.

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.

Some System Of Authority Is A Requirement Of All Communal Living, And It Is Only The Man Dwelling In Isolation Who Is Not Forced To Respond, Through Defiance Or Submission, To The Commands Of Others.

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.