Great libertarian Quote by Albert Camus Download Open image “Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics.” — Albert Camus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Great libertarian Greatness Greatness within Inspirational Libertarian Libertarianism Liberty Men Politics
Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Men who have greatness within them don't go in… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
If I can make a generalization, men get into politics because, from the time they're little boys, they've been wanting to be President. — Barbara Boxer Copy Share Image
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves. — Plato Copy Share Image
No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Men are strange about politics. I have been around the world twice and I know politicians from many cultures. They are all alike. As… — Maryon Pearson Copy Share Image
American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular. — George Packer Copy Share Image
Politics gives guys so much power that they tend to behave badly around women. And I hope I never get into that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Most of them [American politicians] are men of undoubted charm, ability, and incredible energy, and yet too often they lack purpose or appetite for… — Edward R. Murrow 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Life is meaningless, but worth living, provided you recognize it's meaningless. — 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 one doesn't… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms . . . disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes . .… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
For an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation. — Henry Steele Commager Copy Share Image
The standard of living of the common man is higher in those countries which have the greatest number of wealthy entrepreneurs. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The laws that forbid the carrying of arms...disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Can it be supposed that those who have the courage to violate the most sacred laws of humanity...will respect the less important and arbitrary ones... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather… — Cesare Beccaria Copy Share
When all government ...in little as in great things... shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power; it will render powerless… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth. Liberty is not a thing for the great masses of men. It is the exclusive possession of a small and disreputable minority, like knowledge, courage and honor. It takes a special sort of man to understand and enjoy… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share
The proliferation of bureaucrats and its invariable accompaniment, much heavier tax levies on the productive part of the population, are the recognizable signs, not… — William Henry Chamberlin Copy Share Image
Governments harangue about deficits to get more revenue so they can spend more. — Allan H. Meltzer Copy Share Image
We have been living amidst one of the great revolutions of human history, and we hardly know it: the penetration of the State into every aspect of human life and society. Some people regard this as good and "progressive," others regard it as tyrannical; but either way, it's a fact, a transformation as great as, say, the Industrial Revolution. Absolutely… — Joseph Sobran Copy Share