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 petition of an empty hand is dangerous.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • Hand
  • Hands
  • Dangerous

• 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
  • Guard
  • Brains

• 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

• It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Hope
  • Today
  • Dream

• No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Soul
  • Rights
  • Depths

• The New York book was a visual diary and it was also kind of personal newspaper. I wanted it to look like the news. I didn’t relate to European photography. It was too poetic and anecdotal for me… the kinetic quality of new york, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it. So I would be grainy and contrasted and black. Id crop, blur, play with the negatives. I didn’t see clean technique being right for New York. I could imagine my pictures lying in the gutter like the New York Daily News.

  

  William Klein
  • Book
  • Kids
  • Lying

• One area of law more than any other besmirches the constitutional vision of human dignity. . . . The barbaric death penalty violates our Constitution. Even the most vile murderer does not release the state from its obligation to respect dignity, for the state does not honor the victim by< emulating his murderer. Capital punishment's fatal flaw is that it treats people as objects to be toyed with and discarded. . . . One day the Court will outlaw the death penalty. Permanently.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • People
  • Vision
  • Honor

• 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