I am responsible for the Other without waiting for reciprocity, were I to die for it. Reciprocity is his affair.It is precisely insofar as the relationship between the Other and me is not reciprocal that I am subjection to the Other;and I am "subject" essentianlly in this sense.

                                                                              ~by Levinas

我成為他的人質，因此我擁有主體。