Albert Camus Quotes

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Albert Camus

• Freedom
• Responsibilities
• Privileges

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

  

  Og Mandino
  • May
  • Service
  • Better

• I just wanted to give them the 'Lost Jewelry' so they can say, 'Yo, they get that's mean.' And then when I tell 'em, 'Yo, that ain't even the meal. Get ready for the meal!' That's when we 'bout to go crazy because the taste of the appetizer.

  

  Raekwon
  • Lost
  • Crazy
  • Jewelry

• Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.

  

  Washington Irving
  • Women
  • Love
  • Relationship

• I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • School
  • Wish

• According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Decision
  • Research
  • Alcohol

• More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.

  

  K. Flay
  • Music
  • Me
  • Nothing

• You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Money
  • Done
  • Man

• I wore U.S.A. across my chest in 1976.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Across
  • Chest
  • Wore

• My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Up
  • Live
  • Mother

• Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Up
  • Women
  • Education

• The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • History
  • Problem
  • Message

• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Want
  • Government
  • Powerful

• A goal is a dream with a deadline.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Dream
  • Deadline
  • Goat

• I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Game
  • Change
  • Hurt

• I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Up
  • Running
  • Hurt

• My mom Marina and I were poor and hungry. We could sometimes not afford to eat - seriously. We lived together in a small town, called Berdyansk, in Ukraine. I was an only child. I don't think we would have survived if there had been more kids.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Small

• There is a scale of virtues, and it is necessary, if one would mount the higher steps, to begin with the lowest; and the first virtue a man must acquire if he wishes to acquire the others, is that which the ancients called ἐγκράτεια or σωφροσύνη - i.e., self-control or moderation.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Control
  • Wishes

• Republicans are for clean water, clean air, and clean energy. We are not for taxing people out of their house, home and business to pay for it. And that is the fundamental difference between the Democrats and Republicans on this issue.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • People
  • Home
  • Business

• One said he wondered that leather was not dearer than any other thing. Being demanded a reason: because, saith he, it is more stood upon than any other thing in the world.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Reason
  • Said

• Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Freedom
  • Responsibilities
  • Privileges