Albert Camus Quotes

There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

Albert Camus

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• Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.

  

  Barbara Olson
  • War
  • End
  • Cold

• Obama said if elected his government would "harness technology to confront the biggest challenges that America faces".

  

  Barack Obama
  • America
  • Technology

• You are not only a man, you are a superior man: a man who does his best to live as love in the world and in his intimacy, a man whose heart remains open and whose truth remains strong.

  

  David Deida
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I try not to be a prisoner to those kinds of thoughts or ideas of what I think my life should be or shouldn't be. That's why I've never had a five-year plan. I always knew that I wanted to have children. It wasn't kind of something that I discovered later. I also never felt the biological clock ticking because I think I always knew that I wanted to adopt.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Children

• In past wars only homes burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even loneliness ignites. In past wars only bodys burnt, but this time Don't be surprised if even shadows ignite.

  

  Sahir Ludhianvi
  • Loneliness
  • Surprised
  • Shadows

• For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Universe
  • Present
  • Particles

• History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • History
  • Belief
  • Falsehood

• No old Men (excepting Dr. Wallis) love Mathematicks.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Men
  • Love
  • Old

• A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.

  

  Confucius
  • Excellence
  • Demand
  • Examine

• True Godliness doesn't turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it, and excites their endeavors to mend it. ...We have nothing that we can call our own; no, not our selves: for we are all but Tenants, and at Will, too, of the great Lord of our selves, and the rest of this great farm, the World that we live upon.

  

  William Penn
  • World
  • Men
  • Creation

• High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Thinking
  • Worship
  • Inconsistent

• ...it is said with such terrible justice that the sins of the fathers are avenged down to the tenth generation. But this applies only to profanation of the blood and the race.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Justice
  • Generation
  • Profanation

• It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Direction
  • Veins
  • Expansion

• There are forces in nature called Love and Hate. The force of Love causes elements to be attracted to each other and to be built up into some particular form or person, and the force of Hate causes the decomposition of things.

  

  Empedocles
  • Love
  • Hate
  • Forces

• Stern fate and time Will have their victims; and the best die first, Leaving the bad still strong, though past their prime, To curse the hopeless world they ever curs'd Vaunting vile deeds, and vainest of the worst.

  

  Ebenezer Elliott
  • Deeds
  • Victims
  • Hopeless

• Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.

  

  Egon Friedell
  • Forces
  • Electricity
  • Magnetism

• Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Father
  • Games
  • Sisters

• There are plagues, and there are victims, and it's the duty of good men not to join forces with the plagues.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Forces
  • Victims
  • Duty Of Man