. Ruth

“Aushwitze itself remains explicable. The most profound statement yet made upon Aushwitz was not a statement at all, but a response.

The query, 'At Aushwitze, tell me, where was God?'

And the answer: 'Where was man?”
― William Styron, Sophie’s Choice

“Would it be okay, for example, for an artificial intelligence to exploit humans and even kill them to further its own needs and desires? If it should never be allowed to do that, despite its superior intelligence and power, why is it ethical for humans to exploit and kill pigs?”
― Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

“To despise flowers is to offend God.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Black Tulip

“So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See