"The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny ...












Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.
More Albert Camus quotes
"Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.
"A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.
"By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.
"And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and ...
"Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences—all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertain...
"If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposi...
"They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.
"Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.
"Freedom, "that terrible word inscribed on the chariot of the storm," is the motivating principle of all revolutions. Without it, justice seems inconce...