Albert Camus Quotes
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
Camus, Albert. Notebooks 1935-1942. Translated by Philip Thody, Knopf, 1963.
This is an example of a twisted kind of political logic that says that if there are law breakers who don't like legal behavior of others and will therefore commit violent crimes if they continue to act legally, the law should be changed to make the behavior illegal so they criminals and murderers will not be so angry. However, there are few people who actually believe this. An ironic thing about this man is that his rabid opposition to abortion is based on his interpretation of the Bible (Old Testament) which never mentions abortion as a crime. (The Early Hebrews and Christians practiced abortion and saw no Biblical stricture against it.) However, he claims that the Biblical crime of bestiality—punishable by death—should be normalized. See {583375} for an example of this hypocrisy.
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second-youngest recipient in history. His works include The Stranger, The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall, and The Rebel.
