Kit Hogye

“You say the world is in such a state that everyone has reason to beg his children's pardon for having brought them into it. But surely that is just the trouble, that none of us will remember our own sins. Neither our own sins nor those of our forefathers -- our forefathers' sins we dress up as something romantic, whether it's the history of a nation or of a class, or merely of our own family. When we discover that we have built our self-confidence on a mere fiction, we make up another story about what we were like in the Viking Age, or about the Germanic race in the Bronze Age, or about the type of humanity they are going to breed in Russia or Germany or Rome, if only they have the power and keep it long enough.-- So we can build our self-confidence as human beings on people we have never seen and are safe never to see.”
― Sigrid Undset, Den trofaste hustru