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
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More quotes by Albert Camus
- Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
- The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone.
- Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
- A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession.
- Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.