Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature. – Albert Camus
Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. – 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
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