Albert Camus

“By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.”
-Albert Camus

“For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.”
-Albert Camus

“To abandon oneself to principles is really to die – and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love.”
-Albert Camus

“To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.”
-Albert Camus

“Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.”
-Albert Camus