Revolution Quotes by Albert Camus

With rebellion, awareness is born

— Albert Camus

Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

— Albert Camus

Every rebellion implies some kind of unity.

— Albert Camus

Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love.

— Albert Camus

Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty.

— Albert Camus

Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified.

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

— Albert Camus

“Essay on tragedy. (1) The silence of Prometheus. (2) The Elizabethans. (3) Moliere. (4) The spirit of revolt.”

— Albert Camus

One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity.

— Albert Camus

Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.

— Albert Camus

Revolt and revolution both wind up at the same crossroads: the police, or folly

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It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.

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

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Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion.

— Albert Camus

More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to…

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The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know,…

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The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion,…

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Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves…

— Albert Camus

“Revolt begins first in the human heart. But there comes a time when revolt spreads from heart to spirit, when a feeling…

— Albert Camus

In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds…

— Albert Camus

“Lenin only believes in the revolution and in the virtue of expediency.'One must be prepared for every sacrifice, to use, if necessary,…

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

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“today he felt life, youth, people slipping away from him, without being able to hold on to any of them, left with…

— Albert Camus

“Aren’t you sentient human beings? Or are you living like animals for the moment only? In that case by all means indulge…

— Albert Camus

Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist,…

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“Man’s solidarity is founded upon rebellion, and rebellion can only be justified by this solidarity. We then have authority to say that…

— Albert Camus

“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

“One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity. It…

— Albert Camus

“The act of rebellion carries him beyond the point he reached by simply refusing. He exceeds the bounds that he established for…

— Albert Camus

“The slave protests against the condition of his state of slavery; the metaphysical rebel protests against the human condition in general. The…

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

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All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State.

— Albert Camus

The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature.

— Albert Camus

Revolution, in order to be creative, cannot do without either a moral or metaphysical rule to balance the insanity of history.

— Albert Camus

In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary.

— Albert Camus

The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order .

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Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary.

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“The furious revolt of the first weeks had given place to a vast despondency, not to be taken for resignation, though it…

— Albert Camus

In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a…

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The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The…

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