Albert Camus Quotes
...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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Our responsibility is to captivate you for however long we've asked for your attention. That said, there is tremendous drama to be gotten from the great, what you would say, heavy issues.
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If you look at all the sports in China, the government is extremely involved and they are extremely proud of their athlete.
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How shall I describe Youth, the time of contradictions and anomalies? The fiercest radicalisms, the most dogged conservatisms, irrepressible gayety, bitter melancholy,-all these moods are equally part of that showery spring-time of life.
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We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.
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Right now we're in a precarious situation, ... One thumb, and now we've got two, so that's not going to work out.
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There were so many layers of reality to the world. Nothing stopped for death; nothing stopped for grief or horror or tragedy.
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I believed that I could still win no matter what the score was.
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He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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You don't filter smokestacks or water. Instead, you put the filter in your head and design the problem out of existence.
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It's not in the best interest of any of us to do anything that would harm that relationship (with the Legislature).
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A father's interest in having a child--perhaps his only child--may be unmatched by any other interest in his life. It is truly surprising that the state must assign a greater value to a mother's decision to cut off a potential human life by abortion than to a father's decision to let it mature into a live child.
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Claim the events of your life! When you posses all you have been and done, you are fierce with reality.
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A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.
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Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
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For it is the same whether you take it that the Earth is in motion or the Sky. For, in both the cases, it does not affect the Astronomical Science. It is just for the Physicist to see if it is possible to refute it.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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...we rarely confide in those who are better than we. Rather, we are more inclined to flee their society. Most often, on the other hand, we confess to those who are like us and who share our weaknesses. Hence we don't want to improve ourselves and be bettered, for we should first have to be judged in default. We merely wish to be pitied and encouraged in the course we have chosen. In short, we should like, at the same time, to cease being guilty and yet not to make the effort of cleansing ourselves.
