An old brass lantern beside a small carved wooden wolf on dark green cloth.

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Albert Camus

A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Without moral principles, a person becomes something untamed and dangerous, no longer restrained by conscience. The speaker sees ethics as what separates human beings from raw appetite and violence. Remove it, and the danger is not confined; it is released into the whole world.

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