... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why?… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Knowing what [Christ] knew , knowing all about mankind--ah! who would have thought that the crime is not so much to make… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We all carry within us places of exile, our crimes, our ravages. Our task is not to unleash them on the world;… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Crime too is a form of solitude, even if one thousand get together to commit it. And it is right for me… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Soon after this incident the court rose. As I was being taken from the courthouse to the prison van, I was conscious… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
. habit starts at the second crime. At the first one, something is ending. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“But as soon as a man, through lack of character, takes refuge in doctrine, as soon as crime reasons about itself, it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The hearing was adjourned. For a few brief moments, as I left the Law Courts on my way to the van, I… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Hostile to the past, impatient of the present, and cheated of the future, we were much like those whom men's justice, or… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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