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Quote by Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a

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

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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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Death
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Albert Camus
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After all, every murderer when he kills runs the risk of the most dreadful of deaths, whereas those who kill him risk nothing except promotion. – Albert Camus

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Murder
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The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date. – Albert Camus

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Capitalism
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I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up. – Jim DeMint

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That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part. – Thomas Jefferson

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When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. – Harry S. Truman

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. – Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954

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