Albert Camus Quotes

Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

Albert Camus

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• In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • World
  • Military
  • Financial

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
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• I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.

  

  Larry David
  • Like
  • Comfort
  • Comfort Zone

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.

  

  Adam Braun
  • Life
  • Family
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• I'm proud of my sexuality.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Proud
  • Sexuality

• My grandmother worked at one of those Bel-Air mansions, and we would go - not too often, but every now and then - to pick her up. Hollywood was probably 12 miles from my house, but it might as well have been a million miles away. The only time I saw that world was on TV. Until I started making records.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Up
  • Time
  • World

• They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Me
  • Space
  • Flying

• Despite the often illusory nature of essays on the psychology of a nation, it seems to me there is something revealing in the insistence with which a people will question itself during certain periods of its growth.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • People
  • Nature
  • Question

• He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Good
  • Help
  • Wisdom

• I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Speed

• Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.

  

  Vera Wang
  • People
  • Success
  • Learn

• I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences.

  

  Rafer Johnson
  • Important
  • Why
  • City

• Like a hawk about to devour its prey, the wings of public opinion hover above the head of the judge. All the Court’s decisions are disguised and indirect forms of pleading at the bar of public opinion.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Opinion
  • Judge

• Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Brain

• Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

  

  Otto Weininger

• I am in show business. I don't, for a minute, ever forget that this is a business that I'm involved in, and it plays by business' rules.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Business

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• Money messes up everything. It ruins art. The second you start putting price tags on this stuff, it's... Art isn't for just the wealthy. It's for everybody to enjoy.

  

  John Gourley Portugal. The Man
  • Up
  • Money
  • Art

• That is to say, nature's laws are causal; they reveal themselves by comparison and difference, and they operate at every multivariate space/time point.

  

  Edward Tufte
  • Time
  • Nature
  • Space

• Journey over, sorrowless, freed in every way, and with all bonds broken - for such a man there is no more distress.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Journey
  • Distress
  • Sorrowless

• So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Poverty
  • Use
  • Fail

• Matthew being a constant attendant on our Lord, his history is an account of what he saw and heard; and, being influenced by the Holy Spirit, his history is entitled to the utmost degree of credibility.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • History
  • Spirit
  • Credibility

• Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. ("The Plague")

  

  Albert Camus
  • History
  • Death
  • Punished