Albert Camus Quotes

The slave begins by demanding justice and ends up desiring royalty.

We always have an exaggerated idea of what we do not know.

Who could claim that an eternity of happiness can compensate for an instant of human pain?

For every free man who falls, ten slaves are born and the future grows a little darker.

If love were enough, things would be too simple. The more one loves, the more the absurdity solidifies.

The solidarity of men is based on the movement of rebellion, and this, in turn, only finds justification in this complicity. We will, therefore, have the right to say that any rebellion that is authorized to deny or destroy this solidarity loses at the same time the name of rebellion and actually coincides with criminal consent.

Freedom consists, first and foremost, in not lying. Wherever lies proliferate, tyranny is announced or perpetuated.