Skip to content

Freedom Quotes by Albert Camus

59 Freedom quotes by Albert Camus

All Freedom quotes Albert Camus’s page

Albert Camus writes that freedom is more than a privilege; it demands responsibility and can become an act of rebellion. He links freedom to art, saying each daring step on a ridge is an adventure. He also notes that true liberty includes the right never to have to lie.

Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet

Without freedom there is no art.

Image

Liberty is dangerous.

Image

Here lives a free man. Nobody serves him.

Image

Liberty is the right not to lie.

Image

“Actual freedom has not increased in proportion to man's awareness of it.”

Image

I draw from the Absurd three consequences: my revolt, my liberty, my passion.

Image

The world is unimportant and whoever recognizes this conquers his liberty.

Image

Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom.

Image

Freedom is nothing else but a chance to be better.

Image

Freedom is not constituted primarily of privileges but of responsibilities.

Image

Truth and freedom, having few lovers, are demanding mistresses.

Image

Having money is a way of being free of money.

Image

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

Image

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

Image

The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State.…

Image

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

Image

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act…

Image

The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing…

Image

The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving…

Image

There is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom insight and…

Image

“And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want any greatness for it,…

Image

All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness,…

Image

Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of…

Image

“Yesterday it was love. Today the great passions of unity and liberty disrupt the world. yesterday love led to individual death. Today…

Image

Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must…

Image

Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that…

Image

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be…

Image

A free press can of course be good or bad, but, most certainly, without freedom it will never be anything but bad.…

Image

If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole…

Image

“Knowing whether or not man is free involves knowing whether he can have a master. The absurdity peculiar to this problem comes…

Image

“On the basis of the evidence, the only conclusion we can draw from Scheler’s remark is that, thanks to the theory of…

Image

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be…

Image

Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day…

Image

Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance…

Image

“It is true that freedom, when it is made up principally of privileges, insults labor and separates it from culture. But freedom…

Image

“What, in fact, is the absurd man? He who, without negating it, does nothing for the eternal. Not that nostalgia is foreign…

Image

[Liberty] is a choreand a long-distance race, quite solitary, quite exhausting.

Image

Freedom is the right to never have to lie.

Image

Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.

Image

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

Image

Other authors on Freedom

More by Albert Camus

“The whole town rushed outside to celebrate this crowded minute when the time of suffering had ended and the time of forgetting had not…

Generally, I like all islands. There, it is easier to rule.

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…

The more I produce, the less I am certain. On the road along which the artist walks, night falls ever more densely. Finally, he…

“Having been, not only mutilated in our country, wounded in our very flesh, but also divested of our most beautiful images, for you gave…

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…

The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive.

“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…

Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless.

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…

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

“We love people not because for good they did for us, but for good we did for them.”

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…

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the…