The society of merchants can be defined as a society in which things disappear in favor of signs. When a ruling class measures its fortunes, not by the acre of land or the ingot of gold, but by the number of figures corresponding ideally to a certain number of exchange operations, it thereby condemns itself to setting a certain kind of humbug at the center of its experience and its universe. A society founded on signs is, in its essence, an artificial society in which man's carnal truth is handled as something artificial.
Albert CamusA free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert CamusIf pimps and thieves everywhere were always punished, honest people would all believe themselves always to be innocent.
Albert Camus