“As a simple soldier, I learned to carry out orders.”

- Heinrich Boere, on trial in Germany, defending his actions as a member of the Nazi SS

 

“Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.”

- Lydia M. Child, 19th century American Activist