Albert Camus Quotes

If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.

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• This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Heart
  • Simple
  • Brain

• A fly cannot go in unless it stops somewhere; therefore weapons, fuel, food, money will not go to Afghanistan unless the neighbors of Afghanistan are working, are cooperating, either being themselves the origin or the transit.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • Money
  • Food
  • Fly

• I was not addicted to stealing in my youth, nor have ever been; yet such was the confidence of the Negroes in the neighborhood, even at this early period of my life, in my superior judgment, that they would often carry me with them when they were going on any roguery, to plan for them.

  

  Nat Turner
  • Life
  • Confidence
  • Period

• In traditional societies, we have a long legacy of men controlling the body and mind of women. Such societies have valorised motherhood and fabricated concepts like chastity. Women have been the victims of these notions for thousands of years.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Long
  • Women

• I view myself as a male artist.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Myself
  • Artist
  • View

• Given the accelerating velocity of history, we should begin charting deliberately the next phase in its trajectory.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • History
  • Next
  • Begin

• One moment cannot be the most important.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Important
  • Moment
  • Most

• Guys in slavery sang praises to the Lord to deliver them from bondage.

  

  Isaac Hayes
  • Slavery
  • Lord
  • Bondage

• I was born in Jerusalem with a religious background and a rabbi as a father... it was rather poor, but what we did have, we did have books.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Father
  • Religious
  • Born

• I don't want any romantics to go into the military. I'm not a pacifist. I think we need a military, and the better one we have, the better off we are. I don't want kids going in there thinking that it's John Wayne on Iwo Jima. That's not healthy.

  

  Karl Marlantes
  • Thinking
  • Kids
  • Military

• I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • School
  • High
  • House

• I always like to have flowers on the table. I think they make it look special.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Think
  • Look
  • Flowers

• Circumstances dictate your set of values, your set of morals.

  

  Vince Staples
  • Values
  • Your
  • Morals

• Management must speak with one voice. When it doesn't management itself becomes a peripheral opponent to the team's mission.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Team
  • Management
  • Mission

• Why do guests always end up in the kitchen at parties? Is it a social phenomenon? Some strange gravitational pull? I don't know, but one thing is for sure: If your friends are going to congregate in your kitchen, you'd better make it as nice as possible.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Why
  • Friends

• My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.

  

  Laura Dern
  • School
  • Band
  • Son

• When you're a fighter, and you're not doing good in your work, that happens - you lost the fight.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Good
  • Work
  • Lost

• There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Evil

• We aren't the things we collect, acquire, read. We are, for as long as we are here, only love. The things we loved. The people we loved. And these, I think these really do live on.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Long

• If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.

  

  Kanye West
  • Family
  • Black
  • Food

• A good style must, first of all, be clear. It must not be mean or above the dignity of the subject. It must be appropriate.

  

  Aristotle
  • Style
  • Clear
  • Dignity

• I think what Mr. Trump has made clear is that he would not undertake optional wars, what I have called wars of choice, a la, say Iraq in 2003 or Libya, for the purposes of transforming another country. It's not clear whether Hillary Clinton, if she were to have the opportunity, would do such a thing again or whether she would have taken a - the lesson from both Iraq and Libya that we ought not to be undertaking those kinds of wars of choice.

  

  Richard N. Haass
  • Thinking
  • Purpose
  • Clear

• If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Clear
  • Saved