"To assert in any case that a..." - Quote by Albert Camus
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.
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“Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right.”
“The struggle to the top alone will make a human heart SWELL.”
“I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.”
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“I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end.”
“I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice.”
“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.”
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“The soul of a murderer is blind”
“We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.”
“A good person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty.”