War Quotes by Albert Camus

Peace is the only battle worth waging.

— Albert Camus

It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.

— Albert Camus

We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know…

— Albert Camus

Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics.

— Albert Camus

“The beginning of war is similar to the beginning of peace — the world and the heart know nothing about it.”

— Albert Camus

“There had been as many plagues in the world as there had been wars, yet plagues and wars always find people equelly…

— Albert Camus

Something must happen; that is the reason for most human relationships. Something must happen; even servitude in love, in war, ordeath.

— Albert Camus

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid, it can't last long." But though a war may be "too stupid,"…

— Albert Camus

So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories.

— Albert Camus

“The revolutionary government was required to become the government of the war.”

— Albert Camus

“For all those landscapes, those flowers and those plowed fields, the oldest of lands, show you every spring that there are things…

— Albert Camus

To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But…

— Albert Camus

“the simplifications of hatred and prejudice, which embitter and perpetuate the Algerian conflict, must be combated on a daily basis, and one…

— Albert Camus

“The hopeless hope is what sustains us in difficult moments; our comrades will be more patient than the executioners and more numerous…

— Albert Camus

But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is,…

— Albert Camus

The only really committed artist is he who, without refusing to take part in the combat, at least refuses to join the…

— Albert Camus

“And despite the clamors and the violence, we tried to preserve in our hearts the memory of a happy sea, of a…

— Albert Camus

“This land on which so many centuries have left their mark is merely an obligatory retreat for you, whereas it has always…

— Albert Camus

“You never believed in the meaning of this world, and you therefore deduced the idea that everything was equivalent and that good…

— Albert Camus

“And for five years it was no longer possible to enjoy the call of birds in the cool of the evening. We…

— Albert Camus

There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays…

— Albert Camus

“I belong to a nation which for the past four years has begun to relive the course of her entire history and…

— Albert Camus

The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm.

— Albert Camus

“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be…

— Albert Camus

“There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise.”

— Albert Camus

“In raining bullets on those silent faces, already turned away from this world, you think you are disfiguring the face of our…

— Albert Camus

“There's always been war," said Veillard. "But people quickly get accustomed to peace. So they think it's normal. No, war is what's…

— Albert Camus

“You were satisfied to serve the power of your nation and we dreamed of giving ours her truth. It was enough for…

— Albert Camus

“We are fighting for the distinction between sacrifice and mysticism, between energy and violence, between strength and cruelty, for that even finer…

— Albert Camus

“So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories. But Tarrou, perhaps, would have…

— Albert Camus

When a war breaks out, people say: "It's too stupid; it can't last long." But though a war may well be "too…

— Albert Camus

He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full…

— Albert Camus

“It is a great deal to fight while despising war, to accept losing everything while still preferring happiness, to face destruction while…

— Albert Camus

There was a time when I didn’t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes,…

— Albert Camus

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

— Albert Camus