"The welfare of the people in particular..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people.”

“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.”

“How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?”

“The only greater [evil] than separation... [is] living under a government of discretion.”

“When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.”

“Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs.”

“A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong”

“Consider the islands bearing the names of all the saints, bristling with forts like chestnut-burs, or Echinidæ, yet the police will not let a couple of Irishmen have a private sparring- match on one of them, as it is a government monopoly; all the great seaports are in a boxing attitude, and you must sail prudently between two tiers of stony knuckles before you come to feel the warmth of their breasts.”

“Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world.”