Albert Camus Quotes

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

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

• Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are inevitably ruined.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Up
  • Freedom
  • Attention

• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Responsibility
  • Liberty

• I do love doing films; I love going out and creating different characters for each film, and not having to be stuck with one role for many, many years. It's a creative liberty that I love.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Different
  • Love
  • Creative

• The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.

  

  Felix Frankfurter
  • History
  • Liberty
  • Safeguards

• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Freedom
  • Liberty
  • Order

• It has been suggested that those of us who are fighting to defend liberty - fighting to turn around the out-of-control spending and out-of-control debt in this country, fighting to defend the Constitution, it has been suggested that we are wacko birds.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Control
  • Fighting

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?

  

  Edmund Spenser
  • Fall
  • Enjoy
  • Liberty

• I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.

  

  J. Reuben Clark
  • Lost
  • Liberty
  • Blood

• Religious liberty should be a bipartisan issue.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Religious
  • Should
  • Liberty

• A liberty subject to law and subordinate to the common welfare.

  

  Bainbridge Colby
  • Law
  • Liberty
  • Welfare

• I grew up like a neglected weed - ignorant of liberty, having no experience of it.

  

  Harriet Tubman
  • Up
  • Experience
  • Like

• Whenever we take away the liberties of those whom we hate we are opening the way to loss of liberty for those we love.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Love
  • Way
  • Liberty

• There is no such thing as liberty. You only change one sort of domination for another. All we can do is to choose our master.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Change
  • Liberty
  • Choose

• If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.

  

  Aristotle
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Persons

• Freedom and Liberty cannot exist without Individual Responsibilty. Failure to exercise Individual Responsibilty forfeits your right to self-governance and delivers it to Government which, through force, will set the parameters of your life.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Failure

• When this country here was first being founded, there were 13 colonies. The whites were colonized. They were fed up with this taxation without representation. So some of them stood up and said, liberty or death.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Up
  • Country
  • Death

• We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Liberty
  • Temptation
  • Libertarian

• What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Believe
  • Love
  • True

• Neither the victories of the Olympic Games nor those achieved in battles make the man happy. The only victories that make him happy are those achieved against himself. Temptations and tests are combats. You have beaten one, two, many times; still fight. If you defeat at last you will be happy your entire life, as if you have always defeated.

  

  Epictetus
  • Life
  • Achieved
  • Victories

• Every time there has been an attempt to disturb it, it led to two things. It led to immediate intense conflict with China, and it led to a reaffirmation in the end, because nobody wanted a major confrontation with China to this principle of a "one China" policy within which Taiwan is finding a place now. Its own position has greatly improved since the Nixon policy. It is richer, it is stronger and it is participating in many international organizations.

  

  Henry Kissinger
  • Conflict
  • China
  • Taiwan

• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Imagine
  • Fantasy
  • Jewelry

• The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Liberty
  • Unimportant
  • Recognizes