A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
Category Archive: Albert Camus
Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without.
Heroism is accessible. Happiness is more difficult.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.
For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.
To govern means to pillage, as everyone knows.
We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.
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.
Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.