Albert Camus Quotes
None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
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Having lived through the transition from totalitarianism, I am acutely mindful of the need to never take for granted the basic freedoms of thought, expression and belief that democracy brings.
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It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institution of private property.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.
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There is no remedy for time misspent; No healing for the waste of idleness, Whose very languor is a punishment Heavier than active souls can feel or guess.
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I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry.
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We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils.
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When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
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Laziness is the mother of all evils.
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I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however.
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The Remedy often proves worse than the Disease.
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I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj
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It generally troubles them [the reformers] not a whit that their remedy implies a complete reconstruction of society, or even a reconstitution of human nature.
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Any attempt to replace a personal conscience by a collective conscience does violence to the individual and is the first step toward totalitarianism.
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My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.
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Labor rids us of three great evils; tediousness, vice, and poverty.
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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It's pretty sad when you have to choose between the lesser of two evils.
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If we have two Azerbaijani teams playing in London nobody would complain. They would come and play without any problems.
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Being a movie star isn't easy. It requires a lot of commitment and sacrifice. Your career goes through extreme ups and downs. You are judged all the time. Great things are written about you, but at the same time, not-so-good things are also said. At times, things are said about you that are completely untrue, and people mostly try to pull you down.
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On a simple level, you need directors who are good at action and can choreograph an action scene, but you need them to also have that sense of fun and that sense of movement and that ability to get the actors to really respond to the material in the way that you want them to. It's a very big thing.
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I've learned that, as much as you would like to, you can't trust everyone.
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Not surprisingly, troubled economic times often beget proselytizers of wacky, extreme ideas.
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None of the evils which totalitarianism ... claims to remedy is worse than totalitarianism itself.
