No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained.Abraham Lincoln
The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.Abraham Lincoln
Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.Albert Camus
The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.Albert Camus
To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.Albert Camus
The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.Albert Camus
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.Albert Camus
