..a guilty system recognizes no innocents. As with any power apparatus which thinks everybody’s either for it or against it, we’re against it. You would be too, if you thought about it. The very way you think places you among its enemies. This might not be your fault, because every society imposes some of its values on those raised within it, but the point is that some societies try to maximize that effect, and some try to minimize it. You come from one of the latter and you’re being asked to explain yourself to one of the former. Prevarication will be more difficult than you might imagine; neutrality is probably impossible. You cannot choose not to have the politics you do; they are not some separate set of entities somehow detachable from the rest of your being; they are a function of your existence. I know that and they know that; you had better accept it. Iain M. Banks
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This quote is one of the most famous quotes by Albert Camus and it is about the absurdity of the human condition and how we live our lives in a way that we think we should live them yet we don’t follow through with our beliefs and beliefs that we had when we were younger. The idea of guilt and innocence in this quote is not just about people who do wrong but also means people who have done nothing wrong. People who have done something bad may be more willing to admit their wrongdoing than people who have never even thought about doing something wrong. However, the idea also goes further than this and it is not just about admitting mistakes or wrongdoing, but also accepting your actions and accepting your mistakes no matter what they are. If you need to be punished for something you did then you should be punished for what you did.

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