Brokenness involves removing inappropriate pride and self-reliance and building healthy God-reliance.
It is easy to ignore responsibility when one is only an intermediate link in a chain of action.
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.
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)
A substantial proportion of people do what they are told to do, irrespective of the content of the act, and without pangs of conscience, so long as they perceive that the command comes from a legitimate authority.
I would say, on the basis of having observe a thousand people in the experiment and having my own intuition shaped and informed by these experiments, that if a system of death camps were set up in the United States of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town.
Art is an artifice that you try to make seem natural.
I happen to be blessed with loving what I do for a living. I love acting and I'm so fortunate to be able to work in this business. And I get these marvelous letters about how encouraging it is to see someone making the most of their time and still enjoying it.
If I can steal away and read something other than what I have to for my work, it's restorative.
I'm never quite sure how far to go with praising young kids because the next thing you will see him probably driving a Mercedes and he'll have his socks over his knees and four earrings in and a Walt Disney hat.