Albert Camus Quotes

Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

Albert Camus

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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

• Undocumented immigrants produced $1.58 billion in state revenues, which exceeded the $1.16 billion in state services they received. However, local governments bore the burden of $1.44 billion in uncompensated health care costs and local law enforcement costs not paid for by the state.

  

  Carole Keeton
  • Immigrants
  • Received
  • Revenues

• St. Augustine and St. Thomas define mortal sin to be a turning away from God: that is, the turning of one's back upon God, leaving the Creator for the sake of the creature. What punishment would that subject deserve who, while his king was giving him a command, contemptuously turned his back upon him to go and transgress his orders? This is what the sinner does; and this is punished in hell with the pain of loss, that is, the loss of God, a punishment richly deserved by him who in this life turns his back upon his sovereign good.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Life
  • Good
  • God

• Moral laws are set as a curb and restraint to these exorbitant desires, which they cannot be but by rewards and punishments, that will over-balance the satisfaction any one shall propose to himself in the breach of the law.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Desires
  • Punishment
  • Moral Law

• Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Punishment
  • Murders
  • Premeditated