Albert Camus Quotes About Torture

• Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Numbers, World

  Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.73, Vintage

• There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one’s fellow man, or merely say evil of one’s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman.

  Albert Camus

  War, Men, Ideas

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.114, Vintage

• No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

  Albert Camus

  Children, Father, Ideas

  ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

• Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?

  Albert Camus

  Succeed, Steps, Torture

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.121, Vintage

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