"The soul of a murderer is blind..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“The principles which men give to themselves end by overwhelming their noblest intentions.”

“Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.”

“I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.”

“What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain fact is that, if it be suitably selective, it is extremely salubrious. Suppose it could be so arranged that it ran to 100% a year among politicians, executive secretaries, drive chairmen, and the homicidally insane? What rational man would object?”

“The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.”

“Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that unsuspected ripens within the flower of the pleasure which concealed it.”

“Practice really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their mind.”

“The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him.”

“If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak.”