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Albert Camus
“The welfare of humanity is always the alibi of tyrants.”
Albert Camus

Albert Camus
“If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
(as quoted by Tony Judt)
Albert Camus

Albert Camus
“The need to be right - the sign of a vulgar mind.”
Albert Camus

Albert Camus
“The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience.”
Albert Camus

Albert Camus
“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.”
Albert Camus, The Plague

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