Quote by Albert Camus
For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous re

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

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The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all — he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly. – Albert Camus

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Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. – Albert Camus

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Death doesnt frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life. – Jeanne Calment

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People need jobs, people need happy and successful lives there should be marriage between one man and one woman, there should the value of person from conception until natural death. – Alveda King

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Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death. – Pearl S. Buck

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A man whose life has been dishonourable is not entitled to escape disgrace in death. – Lucius Accius

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