If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences. - Albert Camus

L'homme enfin n'est pas entièrement coupable — il n'a pas commencé l'histoire — ni tout à fait innocent, puisqu'il la continue.

The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love.

Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children. And if you don't help us, who else in the world can help us do this?