"Les criminels de l'humanité les plus nombreux sont ceux qui se persuadent qu'ils ont fait "ce qu'il fallait"."
Rayna Butler, Sermons sur Salusa Secundus
~ Brian Herbert & Kevin J.Anderson, La bataille de Corrin ~
"I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer. You have a right to kill me. You have a right to do that... but you have no right to judge me. It's impossible for words to describe what is necessary to those who do not know what horror means. Horror. Horror has a face... and you must make a friend of horror. Horror and moral terror are your friends. If they are not then they are enemies to be feared. They are truly enemies. I remember when I was with Special Forces. Seems a thousand centuries ago. We went into a camp to inoculate the children. We left the camp after we had inoculated the children for Polio, and this old man came running after us and he was crying. He couldn't see. We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that. The genius. The will to do that. Perfect, genuine, complete, crystalline, pure. And then I realized they were stronger than we. Because they could stand that these were not monsters. These were men... trained cadres. These men who fought with their hearts, who had families, who had children, who were filled with love... but they had the strength... the strength... to do that. If I had ten divisions of those men our troubles here would be over very quickly. You have to have men who are moral... and at the same time who are able to utilize their primordial instincts to kill without feeling... without passion... without judgment... without judgment. Because it's judgment that defeats us."
Apocalypse Now, philosophy of horror.
"Aussi monstrueux qu'aient été les faits, l'agent n'était ni monstrueux, ni démoniaque, et la seule caractéristique décelable dans son passé comme dans son comportement durant le procès et l'interrogatoire de police était un fait négatif; ce n'était pas de la stupidité mais une curieuse et authentique inaptitude à penser. Il fonctionnait dans son rôle de grand criminel de guerre aussi bien que sous le régime nazi; il n'avait pas la moindre difficulté à accepter un système de règles absolument différent. Il savait que ce qu'il avait alors considéré comme un devoir était à présent appelé un crime, et il acceptait ce nouveau code pénal comme un nouveau langage, sans plus."
Hannah Arendt, Considérations Morales.
L'homme qui commet des atrocités et qui sincèrement s'en repend, c'est l'homme qui souffre. Il connaît le mal, il en est la victime.
L'homme qui commet des atrocités au nom d'une "juste cause", aussi sincère soit-elle, c'est l'homme mauvais. Il ne connaît pas le mal, il en est l'instrument. Regardez-le dans les yeux et vous ne trouverez ni honte, ni souffrance, ni orgueil; seulement le souci de la nécessité.
par J.J.