Albert Camus Quotes

There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

Albert Camus

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• If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.

  

  Barry Sternlicht
  • Interest
  • Killing
  • Probably

• I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.

  

  Whitney Houston
  • Family
  • Husband
  • Daughter

• Even if the whole human race dies off because we keep fighting and killing each other and being heartless, the planet will take care of itself. Eventually, after millions of years, it will cleanse itself, and new life forms, maybe better ones, will come. Meanwhile, we'll have gotten exactly what we deserved: annihilation.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Life
  • Fighting
  • Care

• Apparently, on New Texas, killing a politician was not malum in se, and was mallum prohibitorum only to the extent that what happened to the politician was in excess of what he deserved.

  

  H. Beam Piper
  • Texas
  • Killing
  • Excess

• It was weird to be in a movie that's very clearly a period piece like Killing Reagan, but that's about a time that's within my own memory. That's really weird. And conscious memory, not just vague.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Weird

• But I wondered, how would I feel about killing someone? Now I know. It’s no big deal.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Feels
  • Bigs
  • Deals

• And so it is with us; we serve as handmaidens to Death. When we are guided by His will, killing is a sacrament.

  

  Robin LaFevers
  • Death
  • Killing
  • Sacraments

• No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Killing
  • Consequences
  • Resolved

• There's a difference between doing memoir and writing a novel. If I had put the story of the boy killing my dog - and that was Eric also, what a little monster he was! - in a novel, even if I took it directly from life, it would be fiction.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Writing
  • Dog
  • Boys

• So now I'm going to forget the 400 years of lynching and killing raping and depriving my people feeding of justice and equality and the lowest of low last respect and I'm going to look at two or three white people who are trying to do right and don't see the other million who are trying to kill me? I'm not that big of a fool.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Justice
  • Forget
  • Killing

• I'm on the Zoloft to keep from killing y'all.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Keep
  • Killing
  • Zoloft

• The tendency to cruelty should be watched in children and if they incline to any such cruelty, they should be taught the contrary usage. For the custom of tormenting and killing other animals will, by degrees, harden their hearts even toward man. Children should from the beginning, be brought up in an abhorrence of killing or tormenting living beings.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Killing

• The calculated killing of a human being by the state involves, by its very nature, an absolute denial of the executed person's humanity. The most vile murder does not, in my view, release the state from constitutional restraint on the destruction of human dignity.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Humanity
  • Dignity
  • Killing

• Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Killing
  • Injury
  • Self-Interest

• My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Animals
  • Killing
  • Ahimsa

• To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Belief
  • Killing
  • Religions

• I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Way
  • Dies
  • Kissing

• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Age
  • Killing
  • Bodies

• Let me be very blunt: the heterosexual transmission of AIDS is, in Africa, a function of truly pathological promiscuity. So this is really a violence issue - not the same violence we deal with in Boston, where teenagers stab and shoot each other, but the violence of African men who are killing themselves, and killing African women and children, with pathological promiscuity.

  

  Eugene Rivers
  • Children
  • Violence
  • Killing

• The more killing and homicides you have, the more havoc it prevents.

  

  Richard M. Daley
  • Killing
  • Homicide

• If you're actually being paid to be miserable, and to be as miserable as you can be, that's a very fortunate thing, if you're prone to occasional lapses of spirit.

  

  Tom Hollander
  • Spirit
  • Fortunate
  • Miserable

• I don't know that you can compare it to another show because each show has its own individuality.

  

  Sasha Alexander
  • Show
  • Individuality

• The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Dog
  • Mad
  • Jealousy

• There are causes worth dying for, but none worth killing for.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Killing