"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a good conscience. It would be easy, however, to destroy that good conscience by shouting to them: if you want the happiness of the people, let them speak out and tell what kind of happiness they want and what kind they don't want! But, in truth, the very ones who make use of such alibis know they are lies; they leave to their intellectuals on duty the chore of believing in them and of proving that religion, patriotism, and justice need for their survival the sacrifice of freedom."
-Albert Camus
"Homage to an Exile", published as an essay in Actuelles III, originally a speech delivered at a banquet in honor of President Eduardo Santos, editor of El Tiempo, driven out of Colombia by the dictatorship, 7 December 1955.
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