“….those eyes, which are absolutely without protection, the most naked part of the human body, none the less offer an absolute resistance in which the temptation to murder is inscribed: the tem-ptation of absolute negation. The Other is the only being that one can be tempted to kill. This temptation to murder and this im-possibility of murder constitute the very vision of the face. To see a face is already to hear “You shall not kill,” and to hear “You shall not kill” is to hear “Social justice.”
- E. Levinas
