. Ruth

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

“To translate is never simple. To translate is to betray at the borders, it’s to cheat, it’s to trade one sentence for another. To translate is one of the only human activities in which one is required to lie about the details to convey the truth at large. To translate is to risk understanding better than others that the truth about a word is not single, but double, even triple, quadruple, or quintuple. To translate is to distance oneself from God’s truth, which, as everyone knows or believes, is single.”
― David Diop, At Night All Blood is Black

“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