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Albert Camus Quotes - Page 28

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Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

Whoever today speaks of human existence in terms of power, efficiency, and historical tasks is an actual or potential assassin.

Power, Historical, Tasks

And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.

Art, Fate, Differences

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

Intellectual, Roles, Violence

Albert Camus (2013). “Algerian Chronicles”, p.28, Harvard University Press

... here, where the gaze is stopped everywhere, the whole earth is designed so that the face turns upward and the gaze implores. Oh! I hate this world where we are reduced to God.

God, Prayer, Hate

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four

Men, Two, Knowing

Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

It is better for the intellectual not to talk all the time. To begin with, it would exhaust him, and, above all, it would keep him from thinking. He must create if he can, first and foremost, especially if his creation does not side-step the problems of his time.

Thinking, Intellectual, Doe

The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture.

Culture, Firsts, Dictatorship

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.95, Vintage

The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous.

Pestilence, Duration, Truth Is

Albert Camus (1960). “Collected fiction”

... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

Mean, Men, Ideas

Albert Camus (1957). “the Rebel”

In fact, other people create for lack of power. I, on the other hand, do not need a work: I live.

Life, Creativity, Power

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Men, Law, Trying

Albert Camus (2012). “Resistance, Rebellion, and Death: Essays”, p.190, Vintage

How many crimes are permitted simply because their authors could not endure being wrong.

Integrity, Law, Justice

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

Mean, Long, Suffering

ALBERT CAMUS (1971). “NOBEL PRIZE LIBRARY”

There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible.

Death, Oneself

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

Feelings, Needs, Way

Albert Camus (2012). “The Stranger”, p.65, Vintage

By giving too much importance to fine actions one may end by paying an indirect but powerful tribute to evil, because in so doing one implies that such fine actions are only valuable because they are rare, and that malice or indifference are far more common motives in the actions of men.

Powerful, Men, Evil

The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society.

Spirit, Problem, Rebellion

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.20, Vintage

Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky.

Sky, Indifference

Albert Camus (1948). “The Plague”, Vintage

Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.

Philosophy, Men, Prey

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.31, Vintage

The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together.

Men, Together, World

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.21, Vintage

[Love] is the type of disease that spares neither the intelligent nor the idiotic.

Love, Intelligent, Stupidity

And then came human beings; humans wanted to cling but there was nothing to cling to.

Wanted, Humans, Human Beings

A fate is not a punishment.

Fate, Punishment

Albert Camus (2012). “The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays”, p.75, Vintage

It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

Noble, Demand, Rebellion

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

War, Clouds, Storm

Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.275, Vintage

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