Michael Shannon

This is not how democracy endures.

This is wrong, and all of us know it.

This is our fight.

One day, years from now,

Each one of us will be judged by what we do in this moment.

How will they talk about us?

I wonder.

You know, it's interesting.

I know we're not talking about it right now, but it draws a comparison to something that Robert Jackson says in Nuremberg when he's talking to the Pope.

Yeah.

Yes.

He tells the Pope, you know, you validated the Nazis, and how will you be remembered?

And, you know, sometimes I wonder...

how much people are really concerned about how they're remembered.

In a sense, why would that be important?

I mean, you're gone, right?

But it's a shame that you have to appeal to people's ego to get them to do the right thing.

It shouldn't really be ultimately because you're concerned about how you're remembered.

It should be more that you're concerned about the future of the next generation and the generation that follows.

But if you can bend people at their ego, then you might as well take advantage of it, I guess.