"A living man can be enslaved and..." - Quote by Albert Camus

“A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.”

“We [writers] must know that we can never escape the common misery and that our only justification, if indeed there is a justification, is to speak up, insofar as we can, for those who cannot do so.”

“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live.”

“A free soul ought not to pursue any study slavishly, for nothing that is learned under compulsion stays with the mind.”

“Life always bursts the boundaries of formulas.”

“The man who masters himself is delivered from the force that binds all creatures.”

“Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship.”

“I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old.”

“We want, and must have, a national policy, as to slavery, which deals with it as being wrong.”