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

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

We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges.

Albert Camus
Children, Philosophy, Perfect
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.3, Vintage

The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours.

Albert Camus
Children, Self, Personality
Albert Camus (2012). “The Plague”, p.228, Vintage

In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history.

Albert Camus
Dream, Children, Errors
Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.188, Vintage

Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.

Albert Camus
Children, Men, Air

Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world.

Albert Camus
Children, Men, Perfect
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.303, Vintage

The main thing is that everything become simple, easy enough for a child to understand.

Albert Camus
Children, Simple, Easy

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”

I shall not, as far as I am concerned, try to pass myself off as a Christian in your presence. I share with you the same revulsion from evil. But I do not share your hope, and I continue to struggle against this universe in which children suffer and die.

Albert Camus
Christian, Children, Struggle

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