Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one freedom, to put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Yesterday it was love. Today the great passions of unity and liberty disrupt the world. yesterday love led to individual death. Today… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
There is but one freedom, To put oneself right with death. After that everything is possible. I cannot force you to believe… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“It is true that freedom, when it is made up principally of privileges, insults labor and separates it from culture. But freedom… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The first thing to do is to keep silent – to abolish audiences and learn to be your own judge. To keep… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap of freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Being is good, but getting rich is better… If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he… — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“Then he asked me if I wasn’t interested in a change of life. I said that people never change their lives, that in any… — Albert Camus Copy Share
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — Albert Camus Copy Share
Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share
I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings. — Albert Camus Copy Share
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. — Albert Camus Copy Share
“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.” — Albert Camus Copy Share
You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don’t just wait for a man to come along. That’s the mistake… — Albert Camus Copy Share
The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the… — Albert Camus Copy Share
