Hiba

“Torture is not to be condemned merely because it does not produce the effects expected; it is to be condemned, first and foremost, because it is an unacceptable attack on the very idea of humanity. It is the surest index of barbarism – that extreme pole in human behaviour that leads us to ride roughshod over the humanity of the other. Yet again, torture is in this respect worse than murder, since by torturing I do not remain content with eliminating the person to whom I object, I draw satisfaction from his suffering, from excluding him from humanity, and this intense pleasure lasts for as long as he is alive. Torture leaves an indelible mark on the person tortured but also on the torturer. Institutional torture is even worse than individual torture, since it subverts every idea of justice and right. If the state itself becomes a torturer, how can we believe in the order that it claims to bring or to endorse?”
― Tzvetan Todorov

“Or should one recognize that one becomes a foreigner in another country because one is already a foreigner from within?”
― Julia Kristeva, Strangers to Ourselves

“وعين الرضا عن كل عيب كليلة
ولكن عين السخط تبدي المساويا
ولست بهياب لمـن لا يهابنـي
ولست أرى للمرء ما لا يرى ليا
فإن تدن مني تدن منك مودتـي
وإن تنأ عني تلقني عنـك نائيـاً
كلانا غني عـن أخيـه حياتـه
ونحـن إذا متنـا أشـد تغانيـا”
― الشافعي

“ليست الهويات المعادية هي التي تسبب الصراعات, بل الصراعات هي التي تجعل الهويات معادية”
― Tzvetan Todorov, تأملات في الحضارة والديمقراطية والغيرية