Albert Camus Quotes

I don't believe in murder.

As a society are we going to murder people to show that murder is wrong

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery.

I think people are frustrated in this society, where predators prey upon normal, law-abiding citizens, and you never see justice in the courtroom. In my films, the predators don't get away with it.

Nothing of course was ever done to Bill for the killing of Tutt.

I didn't kill innocent people.

I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to.

… murderer and peasant slayer

A murder is not a martyr. He or she is just a murderer.

The law "thou shalt not kill" has thus come to prevail among the individuals of a civilized state. It does not prevail among nations because our national mind still finds advantage in killing men of other nations and is heedless of the disadvantages to ourselves.

I'm thinking about killing Michael Moore, and I'm wondering if I could kill him myself, or if I would need to hire somebody to do it.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

Stalking the Angel [Joe]"I could off anybody in this place five times over." [Elvis]"Could you off someone and get away with you here?" [Joe]Head shake. "I'm too good even for me.

If I'm not a murderer," asked Corny, "how come I keep killing people?

So?" Bob said. "Hat up, go kill her. Problem solved." "Bob," I said. "You can't just go around killing people." "I know. That's why you should do it." "No, no. I can't go around killing people, either.

To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder.

Still, it doesn't do to murder people, no matter how offensive they may be.

Do they deserve to die?" but "Do we deserve to kill them?

Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies.

I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill.

(Chicago is) the only major city in the country where you can easily buy your way out of a murder rap.

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.

Finally, this being America, there is the constant possibility of murder.