“The individual never has to do with another human being without holding something of that person’s life in his hand. It may be a very small matter, involving only a passing mood, a dampening or quickening of spirit, a deepening or removal of some dislike. But it may also be a matter of tremendous scope, such that the individual can determine if the life of the other flourishes or not.”

The citation is from ‘The Ethical Demand’, written by K.E. Løgstrup in 1952, when he was the professor of theology at the University of Aarhus.