And Perhaps Our Awareness Is The First

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.

And Perhaps Our Awareness Is The First Step To Our Liberation.

Even Eichmann Was Sickened When He Toured The Concentration Camps.

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.

Obedience Is The Psychological Mechanism That Links Individual Action To Political Purpose. It Is The Dispositional Cement That Binds Men To Systems Of Authority.