Camus, Combat

‘What I think needs to be done at the present time is simply this: in the midst of a murderous world, we must decide to reflect on murder and choose. If we can do this, then we will divide ourselves into two groups: those who if need be would be willing to commit murder or become accomplices of murder, and those who would refuse to do so with every fiber of their being. Since this awful division exists, we would be making progress, at least, if we were clear about it’. – Albert Camus, Neither victims nor executioners/Towards dialogue.

Combat (Underground newspaper of the French Resistance) November 30, 1946.