Albert Camus Quotes

When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

Albert Camus

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • You
  • Couple

• I am a danger to myself if I get angry.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Angry
  • Danger

• For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Attention
  • Serious
  • Young

• But I love New York. I used to set my alarm clock when I was there, and get up at 4am and get a coffee, just because I could.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Use
  • Get
  • Could

• I'd love a werebear. But I guess you need that seductive element of danger. And though bears can be dangerous, when you say werebear it just sounds kind of cuddly. Probably has a rainbow on his belly.

  

  Kandyse McClure
  • Kind
  • Danger
  • Rainbow

• To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Profound
  • Danger

• There is a sort of natural instinct of human dignity in the heart of man which steels his very nerves not to bend beneath the heavy blows of a great adversity. The palm-tree grows best beneath a ponderous weight, even so the character of man. There is no merit in it, it is a law of psychology. The petty pangs of small daily cares have often bent the character of men, but great misfortunes seldom. There is less danger in this than in great good luck.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Good
  • Great
  • Men

• We are in danger of forgetting that we cannot do what God does, and that God will not do what we can do.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Danger
  • Forgetting

• In Plato's republic, poets were considered subversive, a danger to the republic. I kind of relish that role. So I see my present role as a gadfly, to use my soapbox to promote my various ideas and obsesions.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Present
  • Danger
  • Role

• The greatest danger in art is too much knowledge.

  

  Andre Derain
  • Art
  • Knowledge
  • Danger

• For anybody that works in any kind of demining or any kind of humanitarian aid work, there is danger and it's always a high-risk area [in Cambodia].

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Work
  • High
  • Kind

• It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Danger
  • Paint
  • Treading

• Power is what spoils people. Yes, it seems to me that the seeking after power is the great danger and the great corruptor of mankind.

  

  Baldur von Schirach
  • People
  • Great
  • Power

• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Danger
  • Conditions

• The kid that showed up (Maddox), that's incredible. I mean, she wasn't even on our radar. It's kind of interesting with us. Probably the best thing that happened to Temple was that their point guard went down, because then our brains went to sleep and we no longer focused on the guards. It was confusion, at the very least.

  

  C. Vivian Stringer
  • Kid
  • Brains
  • Guard

• In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.

  

  Socrates
  • Winning
  • Danger
  • Ready

• How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Freedom
  • Danger
  • Resistance

• So to be sick unto death is, not to be able to die-yet not as though there were hope of life; no, the hopelessness in this case is that even the last hope, death, is not available. When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one's hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Death
  • Danger
  • Despair

• That was before I found out that capitalists are just communists without the polyester.

  

  Brigid Pasulka
  • Communists
  • Capitalists
  • Polyester

• Qualifying for the final has already been a big breakthrough for China, so I felt no pressure at all before the final today. I just told myself that I would do my best and fight for the best results for China.

  

  Han Xiaopeng
  • Results
  • China
  • Final

• Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Peace
  • Hand
  • Heaven

• When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Danger
  • Guard
  • Alarm