The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.
Albert CamusSlave 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 CamusEveryone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.
Albert Camus