• no cause justifies the deaths of innocent people

• nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear

• every act on rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being

• freedom is nothing more than a chance to be better

• those who lack the courage will always find a philosophy to justify it

• for centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. why? because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium

• the god had condemned sisyphus to ceaselessy rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. they had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor

• in order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where mind meet, and in meeting, begin to exist

• you cannot create experience. you must undergo it

• nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal

• the evil that is in the world almost comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding

• real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present

• the only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion

• a man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world

• don't walk behind me; i may not lead. don't walk in front of me; i may not follow. just walk beside me and be my friend