Albert Camus Quotes

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

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• Fair treatment in the work force is no longer exclusively a labor issue, nor is it a women's issue - it is a fundamental economic issue.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Women
  • Economic

• You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

  

  Ira Glasser
  • You
  • Know
  • Stand

• I had rather take my chance that some traitors will escape detection than spread abroad a spirit of general suspicion and distrust, which accepts rumor and gossip in place of undismayed and unintimidated inquiry.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Gossip

• i claim that many patterns of nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... the existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Work
  • Different
  • Nature

• The United States of America is the richest country in the world; yet we're the worst at taking care of poor people.

  

  Unita Zelma Blackwell
  • People
  • World
  • Country

• We cannot ... prove geometrical truths by arithmetic.

  

  Aristotle
  • Prove
  • Truths
  • Arithmetic

• Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Faith
  • Mountains
  • Raises

• Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Everyday

• If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Giving
  • Heaven
  • Hands

• Books gratify and excite our curiosity in innumerable ways.

  

  William Godwin
  • Book
  • Curiosity
  • Lovers

• Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Gods
  • Kill
  • Worship

• Pleasures are like photographs: in the presence of the person we love, we take only negatives, which we develop later, at home, when we have at our disposal once more our inner dark room, the door of which it is strictly forbidden to open while others are present.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Develop
  • Pleasures
  • Photographs

• A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Art
  • Voice
  • Misery

• I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others.

  

  Confucius
  • Man
  • Seeks
  • Small Man

• We who have lived before railways were made belong to another world. It was only yesterday, but what a gulf between now and then! Then was the old world. Stage-coaches, more or less swift, riding-horses, pack-horses, highwaymen, knights in armor, Norman invaders, Roman legions, Druids, Ancient Britons painted blue, and so forth -- all these belong to the old period. But your railroad starts the new era, and we of a certain age belong to the new time and the old one. We who lived before railways, and survive out of the ancient world, are like Father Noah and his family out of the Ark.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • World
  • Age
  • Father

• Punishment is God's. He alone is the infallible Judge.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Judge
  • Gods
  • Punishment

• You are 100% emotional in everything you think, feel and decide. You decide emotionally and justify logically.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Thinking
  • Emotional
  • Feels

• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Punishment
  • Murders
  • Premeditated