Importantly, rather than promoting aggression, testosterone promotes whatever is needed to maintain status when challenged.
Perhaps the challenge is to invent the political structure that will give conscience a better chance against authority.
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.
The purpose of healing is to live while you are alive instead of dying while you are alive. Healing is about being broken and whole at the same time.
Winners see an answer for every problem; losers see a problem in every answer!
We no longer know whom to trust. This is the greatest damage the NSA has done to the Internet, and will be the hardest to fix.
Donald Trump's laid out a plan to end illegal immigration once and for all in America. We've been talking it to death for 20 years. Hillary Clinton and Tim Kaine want to continue the policies of open borders, amnesty, catch and release, sanctuary cities, all the things that are driving wages down in this country.