"It is crudely general to suggest collective responsibility for the German populace. It is, however, fair to suggest that those who continued to defend the idea of Germanhood publicly as the war went on—when this had become synonymous with barbarity—were in fact renouncing their humanity for the sake of individual survival and peace of mind."
Panayiotis Demopoulos, Götterdämmerung: Suicide Music
"So the rich man said, ‘Then I beg you, father Abraham, send Lazarus to my five brothers to warn them of the perils of this place of torment.’ But Abraham said, ‘They have had the words of Moses and the prophets.’
Then the rich man said, ‘No, father Abraham, but if someone from the dead comes before them, then they will repent.’ And Abraham replied, ‘If they will not listen to Moses and the prophets, then they will not be convinced enough to change even if someone rises from the dead and warns them.’”
