More - Albert Camus Quotes

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

Albert Camus

 

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

 Belief French Philosopher

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium.

Albert Camus

 French Philosopher

Every revolution ends by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic

Albert Camus

 Revolution

It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Albert Camus

 French Philosopher Money

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad. . . . Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better, whereas enslavement is a certainty of the worse.

Albert Camus

 Freedom

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

 French Philosopher

We are all special cases.

Albert Camus

 French Philosopher

Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood -- never.

Albert Camus

 

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

Albert Camus

 Conscience French Philosopher