“There was always a screen behind which one could hide – a superior who in turn had his superior – orders, instructions, duties, commands – and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard reality, responsibility, or whatever it was called – there was always a screen behind which to evade the simple law of humanity.”

“There was always a screen behind which one could hide – a superior who in turn had his superior – orders, instructions, duties, commands – and finally the many-headed monster, morale, necessity, hard reality, responsibility, or whatever it was called – there was always a screen behind which to evade the simple law of humanity.”

— Erich Maria Remarque