Levinas, Emmanuel

"To be is to be for the other."

"Justice requires that I be responsible for the other without reciprocity."

"The face is the first language, preceding all words."

"The infinite is what escapes my totality and makes me responsible."

"Ethical responsibility cannot be delegated or shared."

"The other's need is an immediate claim upon my being."

"Transcendence is the possibility of exceeding the present."

"The face says: the other is not for you to judge."

"To be human is to be troubled by the other's suffering."

"Justice is impossible without recognizing the other's absolute otherness."

"The ethical relation is the relation to infinity."

"Being is never neutral; it is always already ethical."

"The widow, the orphan, the stranger—the faces of God."

"Desire is the transcendence that cannot be satisfied or reduced."

"Responsibility is my freedom as the freedom to respond."

"The other breaks into my world without my permission."

"To speak is already to have recognized the other."

"The ethical subject is one who is always already guilty."

"Justice demands that I am responsible beyond what I can know."

"The infinity of the other cannot be filled or completed."

"Hospitality is the opening of oneself to the stranger."

"The face is the revelation of the other as beyond power."

"To be responsible is to be unable to escape the other."

"The ethical is what binds me when I am most free."

"The other's mortality reminds me of my own finitude."

"Being is not independent but always responsive to the other."

"Justice is the recognition that I am not alone in my subjectivity."

"The other's vulnerability is the source of all meaning."

"Responsibility is infinite because the other is infinite."

"The ethical relation precedes all political and social structures."