"The day of my arrest I was..." - Quote by Albert Camus
The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent
More by Albert Camus
“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.”
“What is a firm hand to me, of what use to me is this astonishing power if I cannot change the order of things, if I cannot make the sun set in the east, that suffering diminish and that beings no longer die?”
“You know, [women] do not really condemn any weakness: rather, they try to humiliate or disarm our strengths. That is why women arethe reward, not of the warrior, but of the criminal.”
More on Crime
“Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society.”
“Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.”
“Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture.”
More on Race
“No woman on this whole earth can please me and cook for me and socialise and talk to me like my American black woman.”
“Never yet could I find that a black had uttered a thought above the level of plain narration; never saw even an elemental trait of painting or sculpture.”
“The goal - is the dignity of the black man in America. He wants respect as the human being. He wants recognition as a human being.”