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We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

Albert Camus
Evil, Hungry, Heal

Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

Albert Camus
History, Evil, Historical
"The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt".

What’s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves.

Albert Camus
Men, Evil, World
Albert Camus (1960). “The plague: translated from the French”

None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.

Albert Camus
Evil, Claims, Remedy

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.

Albert Camus
Powerful, Men, Evil

Virtue cannot separate itself from reality without becoming a principle of evil.

Albert Camus
Reality, Evil, Principles

The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly.

Albert Camus
Peace, Fighting, Evil
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.285, Vintage

Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil.

Albert Camus
Life And Death, Evil, Unity
Albert Camus (2012). “The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt”, p.24, Vintage

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