Otto Ohlendorf (1907–1951) German general
Quoted in "Unspeakable: Facing Up to Evil in an Age of Genocide and Terror" - Page 92 - by Os Guinness - 2005.
“I was just a screw or cog in the great machine I called life, and when I dropped out of it I found I was of no use anywhere else.”
— Edith Wharton, book The House of Mirth
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