Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge.
Albert CamusNo code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition.
Albert CamusHuman relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose a future.
Albert CamusEveryone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
Albert CamusThe realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it.
Albert Camus