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")
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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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.
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I'm proud of my sexuality.
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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.
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He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Privilege tends to soften the brain, or so I’ve observed.
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Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.
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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.
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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I insist that there is nothing sacred in the life of an invader, and there is no valid principle of human society that forbids the invaded to protect themselves in whatever way they can.
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'And when a strong man is sweet, even Goddesses look down from Mount Olympus.'
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The Wise Man is that which he hath. The precious Pearl of Paradise Wouldst thou not lose, then must thou be Thyself that Pearl of greatest price.
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My address is like my shoes. It travels with me.
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The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less and less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less and less.
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A vital film that needed to be made at this point in history and has been made magnificently.
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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")
