The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)

by Liu Cixin

She stared at her father’s lifeless body, and the thoughts she could not voice dissolved into her blood, where they would stay with her for the rest of her life.

If this was so, then how many other acts of humankind that had seemed normal or even righteous were, in reality, evil?

It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair. To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.