Once parties, unions and associations, churches and clubs, universities, schools and courts have been forced into line, there comes a points when the ethics of opposition survive only in quixotic, heroic gestures.
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Properly functioning institutions embody morality without constantly preaching it.
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Because the world is constituted more along the lines of the collective rather than the individual, a collective need to forget will tend to overcome an individual desire to remember, and a collective need to remember will tend to overcome an individual wish to forget.
Bernhard Schlink, Guilt about the Past
2008 Weidenfeld Lectures, St Anne's College, Oxford
University of Queensland Press, 2009
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