There was always a screen behind which one could hide—....

“ 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

From : Arch of Triumph: A Novel of a Man Without a Country