108 Quotes By Albert Camus


Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
Albert Camus on fear

It is a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.
Albert Camus on finance

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
Albert Camus on freedom

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus on freedom

Without freedom, no art art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
Albert Camus on freedom

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus on freedom

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
Albert Camus on freedom

Don't walk behind me I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus on friendship

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
Albert Camus on friendship

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus on future

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.
Albert Camus on future

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live my life as if there isn't and die to find out there is.
Albert Camus on god

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert Camus on god

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
Albert Camus on god

Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves.
Albert Camus on good

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus on good

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
Albert Camus on good

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.
Albert Camus on good

To assert in any case that a man must be absolutely cut off from society because he is absolutely evil amounts to saying that society is absolutely good, and no-one in his right mind will believe this today.
Albert Camus on good

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
Albert Camus on government