Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus
By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. – Albert Camus
It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money. – Albert Camus
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life. – Albert Camus