To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate… — 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
As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The only way out [of international dictatorship] is to place international law above governments, which means [...] that there must be a… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
My profession lent itself nicely to my vocation for heights. It freed me of any bitterness towards my fellow men, who were… — 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
Democracy is not the law of the majority but the protection of the minority. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to… — 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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